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ReadyNAS NV+ after HDD upgrade
I decided to upgrade my NV+ V1 with 4.1.16 and X-RAID from qty 4 1TB drives to qty 4 2TB drives yesterday morning. Followed the Netgear recommendation to pull the 1st drive hot and replace it, and AF...
Does the log say that the RAID resync has completed? You can also see this status by hovering over the disk and volume icons in Frontview and RAIDar.
Don't replace the second disk until the resync is done.
Hmm dunno where to "hover over icons" but found under Volumes > RAID Configuration this Status "Resync 15% complete, Time to finish 4 hr 51 min, Speed 45.1 MB/sec" so I guess it is indeed doing something.
StephenB the Netgear kb I've read suggested to me that I could/should replace all disks and then restart. Was this wrong advice? Should I instead, after replacing each disk, do a restart and (apparently) Resync as it applears to be doing now?
Also, any thoughts on why my kernel panicked? ;-)
tominwi wrote:
StephenB the Netgear kb I've read suggested to me that I could/should replace all disks and then restart.
If you install all disks at once, then you are starting over. You'd need to reconfigure the NAS (recreate user accounts, shares, install any add-ons, ...) and then restore all the ifles from a backup. This can be faster than doing four resyncs.
The path you are on will preserve your data. You replace one disk at a time, wait for the resync, and move on to the rest. After the fourth disk is resynced, the volume should expand (perhaps requireing a NAS reboot to trigger it).
tominwi wrote:
Hmm dunno where to "hover over icons" but found under Volumes > RAID Configuration this Status "Resync 15% complete, Time to finish 4 hr 51 min, Speed 45.1 MB/sec" so I guess it is indeed doing something.
Indeed.
If you look on the bottom of the Frontview page you will see a round icon labeled volume, and another block of icons labeled "disks". You can hover your mouse over those icons, and it should give you the status.
tominwi wrote:Also, any thoughts on why my kernel panicked? ;-)
No. You should download the log zip file, there might be some clues in there.
I suggest looking at the disk health before you proceed (clicking on the SMART+ control for each disk on the health page). You can't use Chrome for this, as it will show you a blank pop-up. IE or FireFox will work ok.
It would be wise to make sure you have an up-to-date backup of your files before resyncing the next disk.
Thank you so much StephenB. I let the NV+ complete its resync, but then when I was looking at Frontview again:
1. Noticed the added 2TB drive did not cause there to be any expanded space availability. Is that normal--you did imply the volume would only expand upon syncing the 4 and final disk?
2. Frontview showed the disk as a 1TB disk just as the other three
3. Then while I was pondering this FV locked-up! Kernel panic!
Bah, it seems the RN does not like the disks I bought. At least, that is my assumption as I've never seen "kernel panic" in the many years I've owned this. Now, as I reboot the thing again having pulled power on it, I have my fingers crossed that when it's booted (doing yet another Quota Chk now) I can just pull Drive 1 and put the original Drive 1 back into it and it should take-off and sync etc. i.e. welcome it back into the fold? In which case I will save these 2TB drives for a new NAS perhaps.
EDIT: And now its Resyncing yet again, this time inexplicably saying 12 hours where before it took just 4. Oh well. It says also due to Improper Shutdown I should reboot w/Vol Scan enabled. Maybe I will do that before I try re-installing the original 1TB Disk 1.
You won't get any additional space until it completes re-sync with the second drive. Right now, the additional 1TB of drive 1 has nothing to pair with for redundancy.
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