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Healthy disk rendered dead
Hello, A few weeks back, my NAS warned me that a disk was dead. I ordered 2 new disks (WD30EFRX) and replaced it. All went fine until today: a new email saying a disk was rendered dead. I thought i...
Already tried rebooting today, but that didn't work. I just performed these steps:
1) Shut down the NAS
2) Ensure disk is removed (it already was)
3) Clean up any disk (there wasn't, but made sure)
4) Start without disks (make sure it boots)
5) Add same disk (that faulted earlier but is definitely good) => new disk added notification, starts rebuilding raid
I also checked the other disk (the 2nd reserve disk that wasn't even detected) using the WD Diagnostics app, it's fine as well. I think somehow the NAS had an internal bit set to faulty to true while it should have been set to false. Shutting it down and starting it without the disk seems to solve the problem.
Thanks for your support!
1) Shut down the NAS
2) Ensure disk is removed (it already was)
3) Clean up any disk (there wasn't, but made sure)
4) Start without disks (make sure it boots)
5) Add same disk (that faulted earlier but is definitely good) => new disk added notification, starts rebuilding raid
I also checked the other disk (the 2nd reserve disk that wasn't even detected) using the WD Diagnostics app, it's fine as well. I think somehow the NAS had an internal bit set to faulty to true while it should have been set to false. Shutting it down and starting it without the disk seems to solve the problem.
Thanks for your support!
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