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Faulty Chassis?
I have a NAS 314 that my co-worker let me keep, it was no longer being used, so I decided to set it up at home as a media server. I initially installed two existing Seagate drives (250 GB each) that...
An ATA error, though recorded in the drive SMART data, can be caused by a problem with the interfacing hardware, not the drive itself. Failure to fully seat is often the issue, so look inside and see if there is anything restricting the drive or the connector is broken or dirty. If you see nothing, then the fact that it occurred with two new drives that work in another slot suggestes it is a chassis issue -- probably the SATA backplane. Spare parts are not available, even for original purchasers. So, be happy you have a free 3-bay NAS.
Thanks, Sandshark - I will inspect the connector and cross my fingers it is just dirty.... the NAS has sat unused for a number of months prior to my attempting to get it set up.
Quentin
turns out it was dirty: I powered down, blasted with air and installed all four disks into the bays before booting again, and it worked!
all green LEDs across the board.
So now I have another question, I put the two smaller drives into bays #1 and 2, but they have data on them from the last time I created the NAS volume.
What if I want to start over from scratch, ie: use the two small drives for one volume and the two larger drives for another volume? how do I do that?
thx again
Qkarmark wrote:
I powered down, blasted with air and installed all four disks into the bays before booting again, and it worked!
all green LEDs across the board.
Great!
Qkarmark wrote:
What if I want to start over from scratch, ie: use the two small drives for one volume and the two larger drives for another volume? how do I do that?
If you want two volumes, you would turn off XRAID on the volumes page. If the green stripe is on the XRAID control, then XRAID is enabled. Click on the control, and it will turn off.
Then hot-insert the two other disks. You'd select them, and then format. After that you create a second RAID volume.
The other option is to just leave XRAID on, and go with a single volume. You'd get more capacity that way. You'd hot-insert them (as above) and format them. The NAS should then begin adding them to your existing array (one at a time). The capacity rule is "sum the disks and subtract the largest". Keep in mind that the NAS reports volume size in TiB (1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes), but the disk manufacturers use TB (1000*1000*1000*1000). Google will convert for you - try entering "10 TB in TiB" into google search.
thanks again for your help...
so to be clear, to get a single XRAID volume, I want to:
1) power down
2) remove the two drives in bay #1 and 2
3) boot up with the large 4TB drives in Bay #3 and 4
4) hot-insert the two smaller drives I took out
5) format the two smaller drives?
did I miss anything?
Quentin
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