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ReadyNAS 628X Problems.
I started to encounter problems at the beginning of the week when advised that I had a degraded scenario. The problem was that in the main HD display I could not identify the 'yellow' drive (maybe bi...
Not sure on that. The system might reject the disks as too small still. I haven’t experimented with this recently though.
Sounds to me like the better option would be to gradually swap out the 10TB units and put them in the expansion unit and replace them with 12TB units.
Thanks for the assistance and guidance
BobFord wrote:
Sounds to me like the better option would be to gradually swap out the 10TB units and put them in the expansion unit and replace them with 12TB units.
That certainly will work, while swapping out the 12 TB disks might not.
You'd need to swap two more before you see a space increase (and at that point the capacity will increase by 4 TB). After that you'd gain 2 TB per disk.
Thanks for that - something I will look to do in the coming months.
So, the device is now sorted as regards the resyncs and no bad disks - I also understand the issues of the differing disk sizes in a RAID6 environment. The problem left is that the device doesn't appear to be stable as regards availability. I have a network with 6 pc's accessing the device (or at least wanting to) but after a reboot (which is often a manual turn-off/turn-on as the RAIDar or Admin screen doesn work) I get availability across the network for a few hours and then the device appears offline, I can't get into Admin etc
Is this something that the logs may provide info or would it benefit from a techie taking a remote look?
I am happy to start a new thread if needed
TVMIA
Bob
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