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XrayDoc88's avatar
Mar 24, 2022
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Adding 7th Drive = Degraded?

I've had six 12TB drives installed in a RN628X in X-RAID, RAID 5.  I just added a seventh 12TB drive.  Instead of the usual "resyncing" message on the NAS display, it says "degraded".  When I log in ...
  • StephenB's avatar
    Mar 24, 2022

    XrayDoc88 wrote:

    Is the NAS saying degraded because it is converting from RAID 5 to RAID 6? 

    It will always say "degraded" when RAID redundancy is compromised, but the data is still intact.

     

    In your case that is because the array is being converted to RAID-6, but still only has single-redundancy RAID. 

     

     

     

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