Problems with ReadyNAS

Question

I thought it would be easy to upgrade to a 2x3Tb when a 2Tb drive died on Ch1. I was wrong. Would someone please tell me how to do this. I installed the 3Tb in Ch1, but it still says 'drive dead' in RAIDar. How or do I need to format?

Lost, Gary

StephenB · Answer

Did you try removing the 3TB drive and rebooting?&nbsp; Then hot-insert again.
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Was the 3 TB drive blank/unformatted?
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GaryDD · Answer

I bought the new 3Tb drives from Amazon, they are unformatted. I have tried that, but will try again.

GaryDD · Answer

Even with the 3Tb drive removed, still shows the 2Tb drive as 'dead' - wtf?

StephenB · Answer

GaryDD wrote:
Even with the 3Tb drive removed, still shows the 2Tb drive as 'dead' - wtf?

There are at least 2 possibilities.&nbsp;
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One is that the sata port in the NAS itself failed, so it is not detecting any removals insertions.
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Another is that the linux disk driver disabled the port when the old hard drive failed (if the drive were seriously misbehaving).&nbsp; Rebooting should fix that - if you already tried rebooting, perhaps try shutting down, removing the main power cord for a couple of minutes, and then power up with the bay empty.
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JBDragon1 · Answer

A NAS is not a backup solution. &nbsp;Hopefully you have a real backup. &nbsp;With only 2 drives, you should be in RAID 1. &nbsp;Which means everything is copied to the second HDD. &nbsp;So you should be OK and all your Data should be safe on that 1 HDD. &nbsp; You can only replace one HDD at a time, &nbsp; The NAS has the rebuild the system, when in your case would be format and copy everything over from the other HDD to the new HDD. &nbsp;If you replace the 2GB HDD with a 3GB HDD, it will only show up as 2GB. &nbsp;Think about it. &nbsp;You can't fill a 3GB drive and expect it backed up onto a smaller 2GB HDD. &nbsp;So it'll be 2GB until at such time as you replace the other 2GB HDD with a 3GB HDD and then it'll show as 3GB. &nbsp;&nbsp;I would turn off the NAS, pull out the 1 bad HDD, leave the bay empty, turn it back on and boot up. &nbsp;You should be able to access all your Data. &nbsp;At this point, I would back up that Data to some other external HDD. &nbsp;Once backup up, Pop in the new HDD. &nbsp;As long as it's not formated, the NAS should see it and then install it and start the rebuilding process. &nbsp;If that doesn't happen, well you have a backup of all your Data. The best bet is to restart the NAS from scratch. &nbsp;Reformat both HDD in the NAS. As in start fresh, when done. &nbsp;Copy all the data you backed up back onto the NAS.

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