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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....
I'm not seeing your link, so I'm not certain which post you are referencing. There are issues in some 4 bay units related to power draw - they stagger their drive spin up to avoid it.
In any case hard drives are not supposed to beep. If you are thinking that there is some feature in the drive that produces the beep as a warning, then you are incorrect. Beeps happen in hard drives because the mechanical mechanism is doing something it is not designed to do. Also, it seems unlikely in your case that this is power related, since these drives have been working w/o any issues in your duo for years.
Isolating the drive with power down via the enclosure is pretty safe. If it is drive one, you reinsert it back into the NAS, and power up. Then pull the drive, and replace it. If neither drives beeps in the enclosure when you test the drives, then you know something else is going on (unlikely though it seems).
Also, if you have an enclosure, it is possible to pull the data off of the drive if you need to. That isn't possible with normal windows drivers, but there are a couple of programs that can access linux file systems.
In any case hard drives are not supposed to beep. If you are thinking that there is some feature in the drive that produces the beep as a warning, then you are incorrect. Beeps happen in hard drives because the mechanical mechanism is doing something it is not designed to do. Also, it seems unlikely in your case that this is power related, since these drives have been working w/o any issues in your duo for years.
Isolating the drive with power down via the enclosure is pretty safe. If it is drive one, you reinsert it back into the NAS, and power up. Then pull the drive, and replace it. If neither drives beeps in the enclosure when you test the drives, then you know something else is going on (unlikely though it seems).
Also, if you have an enclosure, it is possible to pull the data off of the drive if you need to. That isn't possible with normal windows drivers, but there are a couple of programs that can access linux file systems.
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