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RN104 Disk Replacement
Hi all,
I currently have a RN104 with 4 x 4TB WD RED (FRX) drives installed and using RAID 5 and working for some time. A while back before pandemic Drive in slot 3 failed (most likely due to a large amount of data being deleted in one action. Either way the drive has to be replaced.
I now have at long last a replacement WD Red Plus (FZX) which is a CMR drive and therefore good to use for NAS.
Is it a case I just take out the drive in slot 3 and insert the replacement and away it goes with a re-sync and all data remains ?
Many thanks in advance
Regards
NJP
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niallryan wrote:
I now have at long last a replacement WD Red Plus (FZX) which is a CMR drive and therefore good to use for NAS.
Is it a case I just take out the drive in slot 3 and insert the replacement and away it goes with a re-sync and all data remains ?
Yes, and I generally recommend doing a hot-swap with the NAS running.
There is some risk of data loss, since there is no raid redundancy until the resync completes. So if another drive fails, you will lose your data. So a backup is still recommended.
Yes, and I generally recommend doing a hot-swap with the NAS running.Good tip - considering I was going to shut it down and then swap out. Cheers StephenB
There is some risk of data loss, since there is no raid redundancy until the resync completes. So if another drive fails, you will lose your data. So a backup is still recommended.
Are you saying that another drive could fail when re-syncing after the drive swap ?
Regards
NJP
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