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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...
The RAID array is still functioning if you can start the NAS w/o HD1, and you can see folders, and access some files. There of course could be some undetected corruption, or even hardware issues with the remaining disks. If there are, then there is nothing we can do to fix that anyway.
On the other hand, if it won't boot, or if you can't see any data then I'd say it is unlikely that you can get any data back.
And yes, I am still concerned about the initial "fail". Personally I would run the destructive seatools test (or its equivalent) on HD1. The test simply writes zeros to every sector. After it runs, I look at the reallocated sector count. If you don't have a freeware tool to look at that, you might download acronis disk monitor.
On the other hand, if it won't boot, or if you can't see any data then I'd say it is unlikely that you can get any data back.
And yes, I am still concerned about the initial "fail". Personally I would run the destructive seatools test (or its equivalent) on HD1. The test simply writes zeros to every sector. After it runs, I look at the reallocated sector count. If you don't have a freeware tool to look at that, you might download acronis disk monitor.
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