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lfrye
Jul 19, 2019Aspirant
ReadyNAS RN3220 Volume is Degraded but all green lights & no errors on disks
Hello, I'll start by stating I do not know what this "*Select Location" thing is while creating this discussion, so I apoligize if I used the wrong "Location". Here is the issue: I have a Ne...
JohnCM_S
Jul 19, 2019NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi lfrye,
Welcome to the Community!
The "Degraded" status means there is no RAID redundancy, so any disk failure will result in loss of the volume.
You can send to me the logs so we can analyze it. You may upload it to Google Drive then send to me the download link via PM (private message).
Regards,
- lfryeJul 19, 2019Aspirant
Hi John,
Thank you for the reply.
This is kinda odd since there hasn't been any changes to the RAID 6 array and this warning first came up on 7/11/2019. I would think this warning would have been here since the array was created years ago. How does that work?
Also, RAID 6 arrays can handle 2 drive failures since it uses two parity stripes on each disk. So I shouldn't be getting this warning message since RAID is redundant array of independent disks. Kinda odd aswell.
Can I send you the logs via OneDrive link?
Thank you,
Leif
- StephenBJul 19, 2019Guru - Experienced User
lfrye wrote:
Also, RAID 6 arrays can handle 2 drive failures since it uses two parity stripes on each disk. So I shouldn't be getting this warning message since RAID is redundant array of independent disks.
You will get this message if one (or two ) drives have failed or dropped out of the array. You haven't lost data, but you are being warned that the RAID protection has been degraded.
The green disk status doesn't necessarily mean the disks are healthy. I suggest you should send JohnCM_S a link to your log zip file so he can take a look at what's going on.
If you don't have a backup of your files, then I suggest that you make one. RAID isn't enough to keep your data safe (not even RAID-6).
- JohnCM_SJul 20, 2019NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi lfrye,
Can I send you the logs via OneDrive link?
Yes, you can send the logs via OneDrive link.
Regards
- lfryeJul 22, 2019Aspirant
Good morning,
I just sent the logs over to John in a PM.
Thank you,
Leif
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