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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 have just realised that this post was never concluded, sorry about that.
Support came back to me, and advice me (23/6) to disable disk spin down. This seemed to sort the issue with disks reporting failures. Meanwhile I had Installed the "new" disk in Ch.1, resynched, updated the firmware to 5.3.10, then installed the reformatted "old" disk in Ch.4.
I now had a full capacity working NAS again, which worked beautifully locally, and could also communicate with me with the mail alerts
Thanks again for all the help, StephenB,
berillio
Support came back to me, and advice me (23/6) to disable disk spin down. This seemed to sort the issue with disks reporting failures. Meanwhile I had Installed the "new" disk in Ch.1, resynched, updated the firmware to 5.3.10, then installed the reformatted "old" disk in Ch.4.
I now had a full capacity working NAS again, which worked beautifully locally, and could also communicate with me with the mail alerts
Thanks again for all the help, StephenB,
berillio
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