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New drive - Volume degraded
Hi, I have had a RN102 with a 3TB Segate drive working happily for several years. I recently added a 3TB WD Red drive, so that I have redundancy protection. ON power up, it starts to synchronise but...
you have swapped the drives around and that would damage the original volume/array.
now u need to have a factory reset with 2 drives in bay1 and 2. they will resync in raid 1 and you copy data to the new array from your backup.
That is IF he has a backup! Not sure why you would have a NAS for awhile with a single HDD. You have zero protection. What's the point? Glad to see that he is finally adding that second HDD, which gives you Raid 1. Which is bascially a clone/Mirrored of 1 HDD to the other HDD.
I have 4 3TB WD Red drives and 2 3TB Seagate NAS drives in my 516 NAS. In fact the 4 WD RED's used to be in my old ReadyNAS NV+ V2 NAS. It doens't seem to me to be a good idea to pull out both HDD and swap in some type of failed conndition. When you install a new HDD, it has to format and index the thing which can take HOURS. I don't know how old your Orignal HDD is. I've had issues with Seagate drives. Not holding up and lasting. When the NAS has to copy and rebuild, it puts extra stress on the drives still in the system. So you may be getting this error, but it's not from the new HDD, but the orignal HDD.
Maybe some of this can help
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Data-Degraded-but-Volumes-are-fine/td-p/1023459
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Volume-Data-degraded-error/td-p/1207091
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