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Degraded Drive Replacement Ready Nas 422
I have an Ready NAS 422 Firmware: 6.10.7 about 4 years old has been running with out issue for close to the entire four years - I recently stumbled across an error message on the Front LCD indicati...
kvz1r wrote:
Biggest or most pertinent question is when I receive the new ST6000NE0023 can I simply remove the failed disk 2 ST6000NE0023 and Insert the new replacement ST6000NE0023 by doing a Hot Swap without Powering the NAS down then waiting for the new drive to be formatted and let the system configure and add it to the array ? Or do I need to power down the NAS , format the drive before adding inserting in the NAS and the power it on and let it do what ever auto configuration it needs to do .
Personally, I test new drives in a PC before putting them in a NAS- in this case I'd use seatools, and run both the long non-destructive diagnostic and the full erase test.
Whether you do that or not, I recommend hot-swapping it. The NAS will then do a short drive test, format it, and then add it to the array.
Powering down and swapping it would also work. But hot-swapping has the advantage that the NAS sees the disk removal and insertion, so there is no need for it to figure out what is going on.
kvz1r wrote:
I am going to back up or copy the 1.37 TB of needed files /directories from the DATA Drive to an external USB drive before I begin the process as a precaution .
Netgear recommends doing a backup first (and I concur). If you don't have a regular backup plan in place for the NAS, I suggest taking care of that after you deal with the failed drive.
kvz1r wrote:
I must say I am a bit miffed as to why the one Graphic indicates RAID 1 and the Main Graphiv from the top left indicates X RAID but I digress I m not sure it matters of if it is in effect X RAID I really don't recall how I originally configured it .
X-RAID is application software that Netgear layers on top of standard RAID. In your case, the system is set up to use RAID 1, and X-RAID is also enabled.
If X-RAID was not enabled, there would be no green stripe through the control.
kvz1r wrote:
Biggest or most pertinent question is when I receive the new ST6000NE0023 can I simply remove the failed disk 2 ST6000NE0023 and Insert the new replacement ST6000NE0023 by doing a Hot Swap without Powering the NAS down then waiting for the new drive to be formatted and let the system configure and add it to the array ? Or do I need to power down the NAS , format the drive before adding inserting in the NAS and the power it on and let it do what ever auto configuration it needs to do .
Personally, I test new drives in a PC before putting them in a NAS- in this case I'd use seatools, and run both the long non-destructive diagnostic and the full erase test.
Whether you do that or not, I recommend hot-swapping it. The NAS will then do a short drive test, format it, and then add it to the array.
Powering down and swapping it would also work. But hot-swapping has the advantage that the NAS sees the disk removal and insertion, so there is no need for it to figure out what is going on.
kvz1r wrote:
I am going to back up or copy the 1.37 TB of needed files /directories from the DATA Drive to an external USB drive before I begin the process as a precaution .
Netgear recommends doing a backup first (and I concur). If you don't have a regular backup plan in place for the NAS, I suggest taking care of that after you deal with the failed drive.
kvz1r wrote:
I must say I am a bit miffed as to why the one Graphic indicates RAID 1 and the Main Graphiv from the top left indicates X RAID but I digress I m not sure it matters of if it is in effect X RAID I really don't recall how I originally configured it .
X-RAID is application software that Netgear layers on top of standard RAID. In your case, the system is set up to use RAID 1, and X-RAID is also enabled.
If X-RAID was not enabled, there would be no green stripe through the control.
Stephen B Thank you so much for the confirmation and pointers I can soon proceed with confidence You were a big help ! Thanks again đ
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