Feedback on faulted disk

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Give this a try, I created it just for these situations…

Hard Drive Troubleshooting Flowchart

What is this: This is a very simple to follow (well for me) set of flowcharts to diagnose drive problems/failures. There is a small bit of ZFS included as many people jump on a drive failure prematurely when it is actually a ZFS issue, so a very small part of ZFS is included, this is not a ZFS troubleshooting guide. What is included you ask? ZFS ERRORS CRITICAL DRIVE ERRORS NON-CRITICAL DRIVE ERRORS SUSPECT FOUL PLAY (ALTERED DRIVE DATA) - The Seagate Drive Issue Saga Specific commands used…

If there is difficulty somewhere, please let me know and if you have a suggestion, provide it.