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rebop
Mar 19, 2013Tutor
Beeeping plus - please advise quickly
Hi folks, ReadyNas Duo. All has been fine, but just started beeping. Once - a few seconds later and again. A little later three times, etc. I checked Raidar and Raidiator and all shows fine. Temps....
StephenB
Mar 19, 2013Guru - Experienced User
The safest thing is to power down the NAS and test the drives externally. Then re-insert them and power up. That will avoid any resyncs. Putting the stress of resync on a potentially failing drive is risky.
If you have to test the drives in the NAS itself (removing, reinserting, etc) then you really will need a full backup in place first. (Actually in all scenarios you really will need a full backup). I would do the testing with hot-removal, wait until I am certain that the beep is gone [or not] and then hot reinsertion. Be sure to wait until the resync is 100% done before you do the second removal.
The config backup on the duo v1 is a zip file - named something like "_READYNAS_CONFIG-DUO-20130319-101448.zip" There are lots of files in there.
On the firmware: 4K sector support was added in 4.1.7. There is a performance boost if you do a factory default with 4.1.7 or later. That's probably not the main concern right now, but worth noting.
On other causes: Generally this beeping is due to a disk. There's no speaker in the disk of course [also no speaker in the NAS chassis], so the sound is being generated by the spinning disk or its motor. I suppose there could be other causes - for instance a failing fan. You could test that by removing both drives (powered down) and then starting up the NAS. It won't boot, but the fans should still come on. Power down the NAS before reinserting - otherwise it will wipe the disks.
If you have to test the drives in the NAS itself (removing, reinserting, etc) then you really will need a full backup in place first. (Actually in all scenarios you really will need a full backup). I would do the testing with hot-removal, wait until I am certain that the beep is gone [or not] and then hot reinsertion. Be sure to wait until the resync is 100% done before you do the second removal.
The config backup on the duo v1 is a zip file - named something like "_READYNAS_CONFIG-DUO-20130319-101448.zip" There are lots of files in there.
On the firmware: 4K sector support was added in 4.1.7. There is a performance boost if you do a factory default with 4.1.7 or later. That's probably not the main concern right now, but worth noting.
On other causes: Generally this beeping is due to a disk. There's no speaker in the disk of course [also no speaker in the NAS chassis], so the sound is being generated by the spinning disk or its motor. I suppose there could be other causes - for instance a failing fan. You could test that by removing both drives (powered down) and then starting up the NAS. It won't boot, but the fans should still come on. Power down the NAS before reinserting - otherwise it will wipe the disks.
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