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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.
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.
Thanks very much for the info. I think I'll reformat the drives, buy some enclosures, and gift them to family as back up drives :)
I'll also set up that maintenance schedule.
StephenB wrote:
Also, there is a maintenance schedule you can set up from the volume settings. I run each of those tests once every three months.
endor diags (seatools, lifeguard, etc) can do that.Where do the results of the Disk Test show up StephenB ?
bedlam1 wrote:
Where do the results of the Disk Test show up StephenB ?
Summary results for all maintenance functions are in the system log (select "volume" as the category"), and of course you do get email alerts. The history (with a bit more information) is at the end of volume.log.
data defrag 2017-08-01 01:00:01 2017-08-01 01:37:27 completed
data balance 2017-08-08 01:00:01 2017-08-08 01:09:35 completed Done, had to relocate 170 out of 9810 chunks
data disk test 2017-09-01 01:00:01 2017-09-01 13:56:37 pass
data scrub 2017-10-01 01:00:02 2017-10-02 23:33:14 passThe disk test is the long SMART test built into the drives - the SMART results are in smart_history.log and disk_info.log.
I haven't had a disk failure since I started running these functions, so I am not sure exactly how what alerts would happen if I did. My guess is that the normal reporting for failure would be triggered.
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