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Readynas 1500 Corrupt Root
We were gifted a ReadyNas 1500 which are trying to get up and running. We have bought 4 x WD red 3TB drives and installed. The Nas has a DHCP address which I can ping and can see on RAIDar, however I...
I suggest trying Lifeguard again, and use the full erase test. That can sometimes pick up issues that the non-destructive test misses.
You can try that with just one drive (leaving the other slots empty). When you power up the NAS with a zeroed drive, it should do a factory install automatically (using XRAID). It will come up pretty quickly, since there is no RAID sync involved.
If that works, you can then hot-insert the remaining drives one at a time - waiting for resync and expansion to complete before moving on to the next.
Thanks Stephen, I will give it a go and let you know. I had hoped that as the drives were new they shouldn't cause an issue but it would seem, looking at some older posts with similar problems that you can never tell.
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