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ReadyNAS PRO 6 / Western Digital Red WD40EFRX
Advance note: I'm ready to be told 'it isn't in the HW Compatibility List - go away' (blush). I've got a ReadyNAS Pro 6, all bays full, with a RAID 6 Volume. After disk failures, I added (at differen...
I think the first two drives I replaced were Seagate ST31500341AS units - but it's a long time ago now.
When I started tonight, the config was thus:
Current Disk sizes:
D1: Western Digital WD40EFRX, 1392 Allocated
D2: Western Digital WD40EFRX, 1392 Allocated
D3: Seagate ST31500341AS, 1392 Allocated
D4: Seagate ST2000VN000-1H3164, 1392 Allocated
D5 The dead drive was a Seagate ST31500341AS, 1392 Allocated, now replaced with a Western Digital WD40EFRX (currently syncing)
I stripped D2, D3, D4, D5 and added the new WD40EFRX drives all at once. That left me unable to create a Volume.
I have a backup on my second ReadyNAS Pro 6 :-). Well - I think I do, and the mounts of the backup look OK. I've never recovered it, so it's always possible there's a silent failure.
Firmware is 4.2.27
I'm pondering either 1 by one replacements, or letting the sync finish, taking out all 6 of the current drives, and putting in the other three WD40EFRX drives I have and doing a factory reset/ default FLEXREAID-2 build to see if it works. Both of which are probably dumb ideas, but the best I have at the moment (blush).
When I started tonight, the config was thus:
Current Disk sizes:
D1: Western Digital WD40EFRX, 1392 Allocated
D2: Western Digital WD40EFRX, 1392 Allocated
D3: Seagate ST31500341AS, 1392 Allocated
D4: Seagate ST2000VN000-1H3164, 1392 Allocated
D5 The dead drive was a Seagate ST31500341AS, 1392 Allocated, now replaced with a Western Digital WD40EFRX (currently syncing)
I stripped D2, D3, D4, D5 and added the new WD40EFRX drives all at once. That left me unable to create a Volume.
I have a backup on my second ReadyNAS Pro 6 :-). Well - I think I do, and the mounts of the backup look OK. I've never recovered it, so it's always possible there's a silent failure.
Firmware is 4.2.27
I'm pondering either 1 by one replacements, or letting the sync finish, taking out all 6 of the current drives, and putting in the other three WD40EFRX drives I have and doing a factory reset/ default FLEXREAID-2 build to see if it works. Both of which are probably dumb ideas, but the best I have at the moment (blush).
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