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Readynas 104 - Drive replacement / drive addition
BLUF: Purchased 2 new WD Red 3tb Drives (WD30EFRX) to add to my existing 3x 1tb Drives. Which drive do I remove and in which order? Add the 4th and wait add and remove? So that Bottom Line up Fro...
I am using the latest firmware 6.4.2
The interface does not allow an easy pull of SMART info so I just did an SSH and smartctl -I the drives...
Maybe I just didnt dig around in the interface well enough?
Can you enlighten me on how to get these logs without SSH?
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My goal is to install 2 drives; this will mean removing one drive (so I have a total of 4 drives installed)
Hello ShoGinn,
I see, now I understand why :)
Here's an article how to get to the smart logs: ReadyNAS: Reallocated sector errors increasing on disk(s)
ShoGinn wrote:
My goal is to install 2 drives; this will mean removing one drive (so I have a total of 4 drives installed)
If you can backup the data, please do so you can factory reset the NAS with all the disks that you want to use, tht will allow you to create a new volume then you can restore the data. That way much better than doing that volume expansion you are planning.
Regards,
I guess that is counter-intuitive to the X-Raid mindset?
I thought that the whole point of this sytem is so I can install a new drive and it will expand the volume?
Hello ShoGinn,
The steps for horizontal and vertical expansion are for XRAID. I was just suggesting the backup and reset so it's faster and less complicated.
Regards,
Excellent suggestion ;)
Now which drive should I remove from my pool?
None of them have sector errors and only one is slightly older than the rest.
Is the Black drive my worst case in this device?
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