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My Ready Nas configured with 5- 6tb Drives. A redligt came on on one of the drives. I replaced the drive, while running.
In the past I could see when the drive was removed, but not this time, I was only showing 4 drives in the configuration.
No resync started, so I turned on resysc, don't know if this helped, but I now see the drive. The main error message at this time,
shows degraged, with the new drive not doing its job??
Thanks for any help, using flex or raid 5
Jeff
Hey JohnCM_S, as well as all those trying to help-
This whole mess gets messier. The first Disk was one of 2 disks sent to me by Egghead. I got the 2nd today (nightmare) I bought 2 NEW disks online, 1 didn't even have it's antistatic packaging, the other was Marked Refurbished (sad for a 2 NEW disk order), they both went back. While all this was happening (I ORDERED 5 NEW dISKS FROM aMAZON). I trully belive that the new disk 2 was bad, but I will never know as they all went back today!@!
That being said my system as I have said is still up on 4 disks, fully booting, and functioning. I do have backups, but might find it easier making new ones. Once I do, I will replace disk 2, with a 12TB drive (add a 12TB, to the other 6TB drives) and see if this fixes all. I am hoping it will.
Worst case and probably best idea- after this replace all drives and data with 12TB drives, instead of the 6TB(drives) that is in there now!!
Drive 2 is still able to be warranteed, as it is not 5 years old, and I checked it is OK to warantee.
The errors noted on Drive 4, were created by another bad disk from the past, if you look up my old post, it actrually explains, How a bad disk can cause this to happen. However this has not been increasing, except for just recently.
I should be getting my new disks tommorrow, I will keep you posted. Thanks again to all of you for your input.
I am not new at this, and all I wanted was to get my system to resync all 5 drives, even though I am only currently using 4. It cant resync, if drive 2 is showing bad, after formatting it 2 times.
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What ReadyNAS model do you have and what firmware are you running?
Was the drive you inserted formatted? (it shouldn't be).
What do you mean when you say you "turned resync on". AFAIK there is no way to do that.
In services under settings resync can be turned on or off
The new disk was not formatted
Volume State is New, and disk state is unknown in configuation
Normally if a HDD fails, you take it out and pop a new drive in. It's been a while, but you may have to format it first before the NAS will make use of it. Then it has to resync that new HDD back into your data. So the NAS is currently rebuilding any data that was lost when you pulled that bad hard drive and it now has to rebuild all that data onto your new HDD to restore your NAS as it should be. This is all part of RAID, in this case, RAID5.
If your system is missing the HDD you pulled and not seeing the new HDD, it would be Degraded!!! If another HDD should fail during this period, you'll lose all your data on all of your drives. Which is why a NAS is not a backup!!! Again it sounds like you have to format the new drive. Click on the new drive that is not part of your system yet, hit Format, and it'll ask you to type in DESTROY. Make sure you only do that to the new drive that is not a part of your NAS yet.
You may have a Box under your main Data box in Volumes with a red dot in it. You'll want to click on the little gear and stroll down to Distroy. If you have that second Box. Don't do that to your main Data Box.
This is in your System Volumes Area of your NAS. Once the new drive is part of your system, it has to Resync which can take hours!!! That will give you reduced performance. You can still use your NAS in the process. In fact I'm doing it right now. My NAS has a number of issues I needed to fix. In the end, I backed up all my Data like you should onto another NAS. I use a cheaper 4 bay QNAP NAS in RAID 0. To get the max storage. It's only a backup and only on for a few hours a couple times a week normally.
installing apps the hard way though SSH, over the years and mangled some of my apps, NZBGet, Sonarr, and Radarr. So under a suggestion by another user, I moved over to using DOCKER. It's taken me a little while to figure out how to use it, and use it on a ReadyNAS 516. But I now have them working through DOCKER this time. In some ways it's easier overall to setup. What was holding me up were path issues. But once I figured out what was wrong, I got it working quickly with the other programs. It all came togeather.
Then had been working on this with just the 2 drives in raid 1. Just in case I had to start over once again and factory wipe it all once again. Once my apps were running, I started popping in the other 4 HDD's. I had to do what I said above. It's in the Process of resyncing right now with another 44 or so hours to go. It started at over 60 hours, and it's dropped faster then what it's currently reporting. When it's finished, I have to copy all my Data back on the the ReadyNAS 516.
PLEX is installed the normal DEB file way. Same goes with Tautulli which is a PLEX monitoring and tracking tool. It's pretty nice.
Maxpower411 wrote:
The main error message at this time, shows degraded, with the new drive not doing its job??
Thanks for any help, using flex or raid 5
As noted above, the rsync setting on system->services has nothing to do with resync.
Normally when you hot-swap a drive it should resync automatically. The volume will be degraded, and you will see resync progress on the volume tab until the process completes.
If resync isn't happening, you can try selecting the drive and clicking the format button. That might help, or give you a clue on what's happening.
If the format is successful, but resync hasn't started then you can try rebooting the NAS next, and see if that triggers resync.
I don't know why you are using FlexRAID, but if you only have one volume you might see if the system will let you switch to X-RAID. As a reminder, X-RAID is enabled if you see a green stripe on the X-RAID control on the volume tab. If you don't see that, just click on the control.
If for some reason you really need FlexRAID, you could see if the system will let you add the new drive to the array manually. You'd do that by selecting the volume on the volumes setting wheel, then selecting the new disk, and finally selecting "add parity".
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