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ReadyNAS NV+ Freezing/Locking up. Diagnostic Help Please!
Hey Guys, My reliable ReadyNAS has been given me issues this last week. It's a ReadyNAS NV+ v1 loaded with 4x2TB WD Green drives. FW is current at 4.1.14. I'm posting here becasue I found thi...
Thanks again mdgm.i was able to scan each drive individually and identify errors on one disk. I have removed that disk and verified that the nas boots up and files are accessible, obviously this isn't a fix as it is still in a degraded state. The memory tests checked out ok. Two follow up questions:
1. How could one failing disk like this crippled the nas completely and why wouldn't the nas detect any issues with the drive or give any indication of a problem with a specific disk.
2. Moving forward- should I attempted to repair/ format the problematic drive or am I able to replace that drive with a drive of a different size and have the readynas rebuild the array? Can x-raid rebuild in that situation?
Thanks again
1. How could one failing disk like this crippled the nas completely and why wouldn't the nas detect any issues with the drive or give any indication of a problem with a specific disk.
2. Moving forward- should I attempted to repair/ format the problematic drive or am I able to replace that drive with a drive of a different size and have the readynas rebuild the array? Can x-raid rebuild in that situation?
Thanks again
1) depends on the failure mode. RAID doesn't guarantee that the system will boot with defective drives.
2) I'd replace the disk with another 2 TB drive (I recommend a WD20EFRX). You can't go smaller (the array won't build) and you can't go larger (since 2 TB is the max for your NAS).
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