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RN10200 two bays - adding a new drive
Good morning to everyone,
Some time ago I bought a readynas 10200 for home use. I started using it with only one disk, configuring it in RAID 1 (mirror) for document backup use.
Now I have decided to also install the second hard disk to have an identical copy of the first one if in future the older disk gets damaged.
Following the suggestions of the forums and manuals I have installed the new disk with the device running on (hot).
After a couple of minutes on my monitor, in the readynas control panel screen i saw the new disk detected and started the sync process.
I thought that any further instructions on what I still had to do would also appear on the monitor, step by step, but now after half an hour no instructions appear, so I ask myself: Do I still have to do something else or I just have to leave the device turned on until the synchronization will be completed?
Instead, at the top of the display, warning messages such as 'volume data changed from unprotected to degraded' appear and now I'm worrying: this is only a transitory message, because the synchronization is not yet completed and which will then disappear when the operation is finished or did I make some mistake while installing the second disk?
I try to attach a screenshot.
Thanks all those who want to answer my questions and help me to complete the operation in the right way.
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christianrogari wrote:
Instead, at the top of the display, warning messages such as 'volume data changed from unprotected to degraded' appear and now I'm worrying: this is only a transitory message, because the synchronization is not yet completed and which will then disappear when the operation is finished or did I make some mistake while installing the second disk?Everything is normal, no need to worry. The volume is shown as degraded because the resyncing isn't complete. Once it finishes, it will become redundant.
And with only one drive, it wasn't redundant before, anyway.
I think It din't have redundance with only one disk, because always I knew that the redundancy is produced by the two disks in RAID. Only I say that before installing the second HDD, the control panel always showed the volume status as "HEALTHY". and immediately after the installation of the second HDD the Nas has changed the volume status from unprotected to degraded.
below here's a screenshot of the ReadyNas registry:
Now I just would like to be able to restore the volume status to "HEALTHY" without losing the data on the system and enjoy again a safe, fully functional and totally reliable Nas .
Could you help me please?
Stephen thanks, but maybe there's something wrong.....as you can see in the attached picture, at the end of the Sync, both the disks are online (both have green led) but the blue little window on the left of the screen still show "il volume è danneggiato" (volume damaged)....
............Some suggestion to fix the problem?
What are you seeing on the log tab?
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