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lbucci
Nov 02, 2020Aspirant
READYNAS-PRO-6 Replaced Failing disks Not Rebuilding
I have the Readynas READYNAS PRO 6 All of the six drive bays have 4TB ST4000 Seagates Iron wolfs or WD 4TB and all about eight years old and has never missed a beat I lost access to the NAS in W...
lbucci
Nov 04, 2020Aspirant
Another thing you could try is to power down the NAS, and install the original drives in their original slots. Then power up the NAS, and see if the volume can be mounted. The challenge here is that the more things you try, the more difficult data recovery becomes.
I was thinking this maybe an option and will try. I'll let you know how it goes.
Just to be clear, I swapped the first disk and it went to a spare after say for a day or so that recovery was 6% and was not moving. On the third day the NAS advised me that drive 3 was failing and needed to be replaced, so I did, it immediately went to spare no recovery was started. At some point within a few hours, drive 6 started showing up as a spare? Drive 6 log on the web-interface showed it wanted to be replaced as it was failing as well.
I work in a data centre, in my entire life I have never seen a three-drive failure, never ever. The two disk failures are rare but have had some over a year and very common is one disk failure on any raid. I believe there is more at play here. Having said that, for the last 5 days it all stable with the layout in the photos, but cannot access the data and drives sitting on spare.
I'll let you know how replacing the drives go. Thank you for your assistance
Sandshark
Nov 04, 2020Sensei
Volume re-sync is a drive intensive process and could drive more than one drive over the cliff to failure. But you may be right and there is actually somehting wrong in the NAS itself that's causing the drives to appear unhealthy.
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