On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 10:31:28AM +0100, Marco Heiming wrote: > 0 8 0 - spare /dev/sda Your spare was /dev/sda > mdadm --examine /dev/sd[b-z] Here you deliberately examine sdb-z, so what happened to sda? You mentioned drive letters changed, but is it really not there anymore? If you don't know which drives you synced in the array then who does...? Regards Andreas Klauer