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After changing disks X-RAID only shows status "spares" but not "raid"
Hi, i replaced on 3 TB disk with a 6 TB disk and let it resync. When finished I replaced the other 3 TB disk with a 6 TB disk. The Web-GUI says it is finished but the icons are still "green" ...
The "LED" is not normally blue -- I've never seen one blue. The LED will be yellow when the volume is re-syncing, which is the change I suspect you saw.. Your NAS volume is as it should be, there is no need to do anything. When a drive is a spare, the part of your drives that is blue is green.
> Now that I see the pictures, I don't know why you think the drives are being detected as spares. They are blue. The color indicator is for the whole drive, not the "LED". While the expansion method is different from what I expected, the end result is all is good.
I'm pretty sure that before changing the disks the colors were both blue on the small "LED" area, below. When I changed the first disk there was one small blue and one small green icon. When syncing finished they stayed green. That was the reason why the matter seemed suspicious to me.
But I learned a lot from you all in this thread. Thanks a lot. I guess I will export the settings as suggested an recreate things when I find the time. But before I will copy some files and take out disks while the system is running to verify syncing/RAID is really working.
Thank you all!
The "LED" is not normally blue -- I've never seen one blue. The LED will be yellow when the volume is re-syncing, which is the change I suspect you saw.. Your NAS volume is as it should be, there is no need to do anything. When a drive is a spare, the part of your drives that is blue is green.
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