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RN214 new HDD apparently not found
Hi all I recently swapped a 2TB HDD in my RN214 for a 4TB HDD. When I swapped another of the 2TB HDD's everything seemed to have gone ok - data recovery completed and when I went to bed last nig...
martinkitching wrote:
Frontview was showing data degraded on the new disk.
The disk isn't shown as degraded, the volume is shown as degraded. That just means one of the disks isn't part of the array (which of course is the case).
martinkitching wrote:
Other than assuming there's a fault with the new HDD, are there any other explanations please?
Well, the most likely explanation is that there is a fault with the new HDD.
So I'd start with testing it in a Windows PC using vendor tools (seatools for seagate, lifeguard for western digital). If that is not possible, then exchange it with the seller.
What disk models are you using? Note some models are now SMR drives, which aren't good choices for RAID.
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