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Degraded Mesage
Hi,
I had a disk fail on my readyNas, however I am not going to replace it the disk. I have now removed it and have enough capacity in the 3 remaining. How do I get rid of the degraded message?
Thanks
Welcome to the Community!
The degraded message will only disappear once you have added or replaced the failed disks. Since you have a 4 - Bay NAS then your XRAID configuration would be RAID 5. This RAID setup will allow one disk failure just like what you are in right now and also why you get the degraded message.
You have to replace the failed disk to remove the message. Also, not replacing the failed disk will risk your data since there is no more protection, another failure will render your volume dead and you will lose your data causing you more damage.
Getting your NAS setup the disks on JBOD will cause you not to have the degraded message in an event of a disk failure but there is also no protection on your data so you lose your data once a disk fails.
Hope this helps!
Regards
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Welcome to the Community!
The degraded message will only disappear once you have added or replaced the failed disks. Since you have a 4 - Bay NAS then your XRAID configuration would be RAID 5. This RAID setup will allow one disk failure just like what you are in right now and also why you get the degraded message.
You have to replace the failed disk to remove the message. Also, not replacing the failed disk will risk your data since there is no more protection, another failure will render your volume dead and you will lose your data causing you more damage.
Getting your NAS setup the disks on JBOD will cause you not to have the degraded message in an event of a disk failure but there is also no protection on your data so you lose your data once a disk fails.
Hope this helps!
Regards
Thanks Marc_V
I just ordered another HDD. :-)
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