Perfectly good drive being wrongfully accused as dead?

StephenB wrote:

I have mixed green/red drives and 7200 rpm drives in the same RAID array and not seen any issues. This was on a pro-6 though, not an NV+, and the 7200 RPM were seagates, the slower were WDC. You might try removing power from the NAS for a while (15 minutes maybe) and then restarting. If that doesn't resolve it perhaps try powering down, removing all drives, and putting just the LP drive in a different slot. Then see if the install works. If it does, try moving the LP to the current slot (NAS powered down) and see if it works there. You could potentially have bad slot.

Are you saying there might be a way for the readynas to put put the hard drive flagged as bad back inside the array?

Since the system has a lot of data on it and is not a new install, I don't think I can just switch the drives for testing purposes but perhaps I would try the drive in a future readynas and see if it causes issues.

I did run seatools from inside the computer using the short and long test and it passes both of them.

I think at one point, the Raidar software showed the drive with a " +" and it said spare when I put the mouse over the icon. It seem like it had kicked it off the array then was treating it like a good drive afterwards.