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Hitachi 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 - NV+ & Ultra 6 Issues
I'm trying to replace 2 hard drives on 2 different boxes. One is an NV+ which has 3 1TB drives the other is an Ultra 6 which has 3 other 2 TB drives. I'm replacing some drives that are getting erro...
When replacing a drive, it is normally better to do a hot swap. During the swap, the unit is supposed to recognize, initiallize and resync the new drive. However, years ago when I was a newby, with my NV+, I lost a drive within a month. I shut it down, removed the old drive, inserted the new one, and rebooted and all went well (both of those drives then ran for the next 3 years, over 25,000 hours before being replace for larger ones).
I would do one thing a little different. I agree that your best and most efficient step is a factory default, but I would actually do two. The first one would be with only the suspect drive in place. With a solo drive there is no hours long synchronization to take place, so if the drive is in fact good and is accepted, it should only take about 15 minutes or so to initialize and establish a one drive volume. Once the volume has been established, then you know the drive is OK. Then shut it down, insert the other two and do a factory default on reboot.
Do you need the steps for a factory default? Here is the boot menu page for all ReadyNAS units, just scroll down to the right one.
I would do one thing a little different. I agree that your best and most efficient step is a factory default, but I would actually do two. The first one would be with only the suspect drive in place. With a solo drive there is no hours long synchronization to take place, so if the drive is in fact good and is accepted, it should only take about 15 minutes or so to initialize and establish a one drive volume. Once the volume has been established, then you know the drive is OK. Then shut it down, insert the other two and do a factory default on reboot.
Do you need the steps for a factory default? Here is the boot menu page for all ReadyNAS units, just scroll down to the right one.
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