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Replace 2 failed hard drives
Model: ReadyNas 104, Firmware 6.2.5 I must be one of the lucky 2% that had 2 hard disks fail in a 4 disk RAID configuration. In fairness disk 4 failed on Thanksgiving and disk 2 failed the day a...
If you've lost 2 disks, you might as well start over on the data volume - all the data is lost anyway.
So one thing you can do is insert both of the new drives (unformatted) and do a factory default. You'll need to build everything from scratch (configure the nas, install apps, reconfigure users and shares, restore data. You can save the configuration if you like (and restore it after you reinstall the apps).
Alternatively, insert both drives, switch to flexraid, and delete the data volume. Then create a new one with the same name, and switch back to xraid. You'll still need to reinstall apps (as their data area is also on the data volume). So this doesn't really save much work over the factory default.
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