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ReadyNas214 xraid
7 days ago, I pushed the button on a factory reset of my ReadyNas214 with 4x6TB disks. This defaults to xraid, which I have never used before, but am curious about. Today, 7 days later, exactly, we a...
edgylitirmor wrote:
I'm using 4x6tb WD Red Plus.
Just to confirm - WD Red Plus? Not WD Reds? The ordinary Red (WD60EFAX) is an SMR drive, which could take a very long time to resync.
Download the log zip file from the logs page, and look to see if any disks have errors.
No errors in the logs.
However, there is an error between keyboard and chair....
Just looking at the logs again and, in the smart_history.log, saw a WD60EFAX where there should have been WD60EFPX.
Not sure how I managed it, but I put in three Red Plus disks and one SMR Red. It was on my desk
when I was testing the others. I must have put one of the new Red Plus disks away, thinking it was one of the old ones, and put an old Red in. It is SMR and clearly the source of the issue.
Man... there's a week I won't get back.
Thanks
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