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Volume degraded, but sync complete
running 6.8.1 on a RN212, XRaid1, Raid 1 I was upgrading my drives from 4tb to 6tb. I took out drive 2, put in the new 6tb drive and left it to do it's thing. 11 hours later, it had finished co...
michaelst wrote:
Hear's another questrion, what do people do with good drives when they swap them out for more capacity? Can these NAS drives be used as internal drives? Do people sell them on Craig's list? Can they be reformatted to NTFS drives?
They can be reformatted. Some people do resell them - if you do that, zero the drive. Vendor diags (seatools, lifeguard, etc) can do that.
michaelst wrote:
Is there anything special I should look for if the drive starts to fail?
Keep an eye on ATA errors, as well as reallocated/pending sector counts and read/write errors. OS 6 has higher thresholds for automatic errors than I am personally comfortable with - so I suggest periodically downloading the logs and looking in disk_info.log.
Also, there is a maintenance schedule you can set up from the volume settings. I run each of those tests once every three months.
ATA errors is not a good sign. If you can exchange the disk, I'd do that. If you can switch to a different model, you might consider an Seagate IronWolf or WDC Red.
If the volume has expanded (as it should have) then you can't hot-insert a 4 TB. You could
- power down the nas
- remove both new drives
- install the original drive 1 in slot 1, leaving slot 2 empty
- reboot the nas
If that boots, you can then hot-insert the second 4 TB drive, and format it. It should resync.
Thanks Stephen...
I think I'll give it another try... well..actually, I was trying to figure out the blinking light and ended up rebooting. So, it's trying to resync drive 1 again. I'll wait and see if I get the same errors. If so, I'll return it to Amazon for a replacement. At least my Plex still runs off the redundant (and good) drive.
Hear's another questrion, what do people do with good drives when they swap them out for more capacity? Can these NAS drives be used as internal drives? Do people sell them on Craig's list? Can they be reformatted to NTFS drives?
After I semi-accidentally rebooted, it started to re-sync the new drive (1)... it got two ATA notices, but evenually synced and changed the status from "resync" to "Online"
I'll keep an eye on it tho. Is there anything special I should look for if the drive starts to fail?
michaelst wrote:
Hear's another questrion, what do people do with good drives when they swap them out for more capacity? Can these NAS drives be used as internal drives? Do people sell them on Craig's list? Can they be reformatted to NTFS drives?
They can be reformatted. Some people do resell them - if you do that, zero the drive. Vendor diags (seatools, lifeguard, etc) can do that.
michaelst wrote:
Is there anything special I should look for if the drive starts to fail?
Keep an eye on ATA errors, as well as reallocated/pending sector counts and read/write errors. OS 6 has higher thresholds for automatic errors than I am personally comfortable with - so I suggest periodically downloading the logs and looking in disk_info.log.
Also, there is a maintenance schedule you can set up from the volume settings. I run each of those tests once every three months.
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