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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 ...
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.
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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