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Yoda3647
Oct 16, 2022Aspirant
Upgrading Hard drive??
Yes, I have read here in this forum to hot swap new drives. The process is 1 drive at a time waiting for the NAS to Sync the data then add the next and so on till finished. I also read that it take t...
- Oct 24, 2022
Thanks for All your help StephenB, I reached out to the person I purchased the Hard drives from and he is sending me 2 more Hard drive to replace these 2 that aren't working.
StephenB
Oct 22, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Yoda3647 wrote:
I put the drive in the last spot do not know if that makes a difference
It doesn't.
Yoda3647 wrote:
I waited for about 4 minutes then I checked on it and this is what I see should I be worried????? It shows no HardDrive but it says it is syncing????
I haven't seen this happen before. Is the "remaining time" dropping significantly (or the percentage completed rising)?
Does clicking on refresh make any difference in what you see?
Maybe also download the log zip, and see if the new drive is generating errors.
Yoda3647
Oct 24, 2022Aspirant
Thanks for All your help StephenB, I reached out to the person I purchased the Hard drives from and he is sending me 2 more Hard drive to replace these 2 that aren't working.
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