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Replaced one dying drive, now another is dead
Hello, I have an Ultra 4 with 4x1TB Seagate drives. For the last few weeks I've been getting email notifications regarding increasing ATA and SMART errors on drive #2. The warranty repl...
Turns out I was also having an issue with disk #1, but the ReadyNAS wasn't reporting it until after I did the sync with disk #2. Running a disk test from the boot menu confirmed it right away. Unfortunately, pulling out disk #1 after the sync had completed destroyed the volume… even though disk #1 worked if disk #2 was removed (so confused). So now I'm in the process of rebuilding my NAS setup. (Luckily my important data was backed-up.)
Though, even after a factory reset, with only 3x1TB drives, it says 50GB is being used. Is this space that it used for redundancy? I was never aware of it before.
Though, even after a factory reset, with only 3x1TB drives, it says 50GB is being used. Is this space that it used for redundancy? I was never aware of it before.
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