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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
I guess it is hard to say if the disk is provoking these crashes, or if it is an unrelated PC issue.
berillio wrote: Seatools crashed into a DOS line, not sure why. The pc did not die like the first time around (this PC has not been booted fo 6 months, and it was "temperamental" but that was mostly an OS issue).
berillio wrote: I am confused about your advice. You mean that I should reboot the NAS as it is now (HD1 removed as it is been tested, HD2 and HD 3 in place), let it "rebuild" the Volume, then add Disk 4..?
If you reboot it as it is now, it shouldn't rebuild anything. It will do a volume scan, and attempt to repair any damage it sees with the file system (such attempts can sometimes result in data loss). But it won't rebuild the RAID array (in fact it can't).
If there's data to copy off, then do it when it boots. Then insert your spare disk into slot1.
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