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Aspirant

Mar 05, 2022

access to Readynas admin page impossible, one disk looks dead

Hi all,

since few days, I'm not able to access to my readynas admin page from a web browser. I'm not able to access to the shared directories. The readynas seems to be (too) busy. After some search on the forum, I've be running Raidar, and it looks like my 3rd hard disk is faulty (see below). Can I replace it, in the state where the readynas is ? No need to access to the admin page before replacing the disk ? Any chance the "busy" state is due to the faulty disk and can stop with a new disk ? Will a restoration start automatically, and will I be able to recover my data ?

It looks like I have no other choice than replacing the disk, but I want to avoid to do a mistake.

here is the raidar result :

thanks for your help.

Vincent

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Mar 05, 2022
I suggest removing the disk, and then rebooting the NAS.

Normally the volume would be available after doing this, but degraded (e.g., RAID redundancy is lost). Best practice is to back up the data, and then hot-insert the replacement disk. If the disk is blank (and you are using XRAID), then the system should start resyncing automatically.

If the volume isn't available (for instance, if it shows up as inactive), then let us know.
- Vincefr34
  Aspirant
  Mar 05, 2022
  Thanks a lot Stephen, I will try this and let you know if not working.
  - Sandshark
    Sensei
    Mar 06, 2022
    It is not normal that it's showing volumes data, data-0, date-1 and data-2 as inactive. In fact data-0 through data-2 shouldn't be visible at all. Some thing else is going on.