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12tb Ironwolf in ReadyNAS RN314
Hello, I am replacing my ageing 3tb Barracuda hard drive with a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 12tb drive, the status on the drive is currently saying "degraded" and the drive has not yet shown up on the Netg...
Carlo71 wrote:I am replacing my ageing 3tb Barracuda hard drive with a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 12tb drive, the status on the drive is currently saying "degraded"
That part is normal, the volume remains degraded until the resync finishes.
Carlo71 wrote:
and the drive has not yet shown up on the Netgear Raidar "volumes" icon...is this normal and how long do I wait for it to format/show up?
This might not be normal, and needs some exploration. Are you using RAIDar, or are you using the web admin interface? Can you post a screenshot of the volumes page in the web admin ui? (not the RAIDar summary).
Might i need to format the drive in a particular fashion?
(I was under the impression that the NAS did this automatically)
You want it unformatted. Did you try the refresh button? Is there an entry in the log?
I have refreshed the browser - no joy.
It isn't a new hard drive...anything I need to do?
This is what the log says.
OK, looks like mystery solved...think the hard drive is U/S...tried to mount it in an external caddy and reformat using NTFS, but it won't even mount and I can hear a repeating "eeee" noise coming from it...looks like its a return to sender job. Swapped it out for the HDD that arrived afterwards and that mounted and is rebuilding the database straight away.
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