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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 different times) two WD40EFRX into an existing volume. The new drives synced, and all was well.
Recently I decided to bite the bullet, after another old drive failed, and bought 4 more WD40EFRX. I took out all but the two existing 4TB drives, added the new drives, heading for 6 * 4TB. I got as far as connecting with RAIDar, but when I went to Volumes, all I got was 'No Volume can be added'. Health checks showed all 6 drives as registered.
So I replaced all the former working drives, and just replaced the dead drive with a WD40EFRX. It's syncing quite happily behind me.
Would anyone be able to enlighten me as to why the ReadyNAs doesn't seem to want to play with all bays filled with the WD drives? I'm probably doing something dumb - or not doing something smart (blushes again).
I've got a ReadyNAS Pro 6, all bays full, with a RAID 6 Volume. After disk failures, I added (at different times) two WD40EFRX into an existing volume. The new drives synced, and all was well.
Recently I decided to bite the bullet, after another old drive failed, and bought 4 more WD40EFRX. I took out all but the two existing 4TB drives, added the new drives, heading for 6 * 4TB. I got as far as connecting with RAIDar, but when I went to Volumes, all I got was 'No Volume can be added'. Health checks showed all 6 drives as registered.
So I replaced all the former working drives, and just replaced the dead drive with a WD40EFRX. It's syncing quite happily behind me.
Would anyone be able to enlighten me as to why the ReadyNAs doesn't seem to want to play with all bays filled with the WD drives? I'm probably doing something dumb - or not doing something smart (blushes again).
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- With 4.2.x you can click setup in RAIDar and choose X-RAID dual-redundancy during the 10 minute countdown when doing a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything).
- Much simpler, thanks.
- The dual-redundancy option is a checkbox.
- And just as a comment - I went with RAID. First I went through as RAID 5, but when the build was complete I couldn't find a way to convert it to RAID 6. So I went back to another Factory Default, and you can in fact set RAID 6 at that stage - at least I could :-). From memory the option list was RAID 1,2,3,4,5,6,10.
My thanks again for all the assistance, gentlemen :-) :-). - RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 are the options.
- Which shows how bad my memory is these days - my thanks, sir (or indeed ma'am, as the case may be :-) ).
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