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Two failed disks at same time
Hi all, Last monday this NAS in a client reported at the exact same time the failure of two of the three drives - thus loosing the volume No prior warnings existed and this beeing a backup NAS the ...
I Rebuilt the RAID5
Took the exepcted time. No errors whatsoever
Of course i dont trust this device anymore - it can be the disks but two failures at at the same instant with no smart errors and no errors on the test and on the rebuild points to some glitch on the NAS itself...
As it is 6+ years old I bought a new NAS for main backup and this will be secondary while it works
Thanks all
EthelDStill wrote:
If you want very good, redundant raid, use software raid in linux.
Which is exactly what the ReadyNAS uses.
Disk cloning could be needed, but I don't think we know enough yet. If the array is out-of-sync, then cloning wouldn't be enough (and might not be needed at all).
I Rebuilt the RAID5
Took the exepcted time. No errors whatsoever
Of course i dont trust this device anymore - it can be the disks but two failures at at the same instant with no smart errors and no errors on the test and on the rebuild points to some glitch on the NAS itself...
As it is 6+ years old I bought a new NAS for main backup and this will be secondary while it works
Thanks all
It could be as simple as a power droop. Replacements are pretty cheap and might be worth the investment.
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