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Disk Test - cancelable?
RN424 4x4TB has been running disk test for 6+ hours. Is it cancelable? Have no way to know how long it will run.
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jimk1963 wrote:
RN424 4x4TB has been running disk test for 6+ hours. Is it cancelable? Have no way to know how long it will run.
Let it finish. It's scanning every sector on all four disks, so it can take a while.
My RN524 with 4x8 TB takes about 22 hours to finish, so I am thinking your array should take about 11 hours. Run time does depend on disk health, and also what else you have the NAS doing. There will be a message in the web ui when it finishes, as well as a log entry.
But to answer your question, rebooting the NAS is the simplest way to cancel it. It is also possible to cancel it using ssh (smartctl).
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Appears disk test completed overnight. Logs show a bad Disk 2 I guess?
Dec 30, 2023 04:30:05 AM Volume: Disk test failed on disk in channel 2, model ST4000DM004-2CV104
Plan was to physically archive these 4 disks in safe storage.
Should I hot-swap a new 4TB disk in first? i.e., let it rebuild, then store the disks.
Or is it OK to store away this "bad" disk along with the others?
Any other downloaded log files to review other than Disk_Info? Disk_info shows this for the second drive:
Current Pending Sector Count: 8
Uncorrectable Sector Count: 8
jimk1963 wrote:
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jimk1963 wrote:
Plan was to physically archive these 4 disks in safe storage.
Should I hot-swap a new 4TB disk in first? i.e., let it rebuild, then store the disks.
Or is it OK to store away this "bad" disk along with the others?
This depends on why you are archiving the disks. If the new volume will end up with everything on the existing volume, then I'd proceed with the fresh install on the new disks. If you need to get the existing volume back, you can always put the three good disks back into the NAS (leaving slot 2 empty) and then resync with a replacement.
If you intend to keep the 4 TB volume for the long haul, then you might as well replace the failed disk now.
jimk1963 wrote:
Any other downloaded log files to review other than Disk_Info? Disk_info shows this for the second drive:
Current Pending Sector Count: 8
Uncorrectable Sector Count: 8
Personally I'd just trust the test result.
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