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Aspirant

May 21, 2020

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ReadyNAS 214 - replacing disks with larger disks

I have been running this NAS with 4 - 2TB drives and it was up the 75% full. So I bought 4 new Seagate Ironwolf 4 TB drives. I replace the first drive and it took about 16 hours to resync. I repla...

StephenB
May 22, 2020
Les214 wrote:

With their lights slowly flashing, are they doing backups,

Possibly. Check the status on the backup page in the web ui.

Les214

Aspirant

May 22, 2020

Thanks for the information. I understand what the NAS is doing.

I got some more emails from the NAS.

Two told me I have external drives connected. They are for auto backups. Both have a light slowly flashing.

Then 1:01 am this morning - Volume data is Degraded.

4:05 am - Consumed space on folder (folder name) exceeds 88% of the quota (8GB).

4:37 am - Volume data is resynced.

- Volume data health changed from Degraded to Redundent.

-Disk in channel 3 changed state from RESYNC to ONLINE.

The NAS is still trying to shutdown and it is not accessable. I am wondering if the external drives need to be removed before shutdown can complete. With their lights slowly flashing, are they doing backups, preventing the shutdown from completing? The power button on the NAS is flashing at a rate of once a second. Any recomendations of what I should do next? or just wait for the NAS to shutdown?

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

May 22, 2020