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Confused about RN316 status with new drive
I'm not sure what is happening with my RN316. First Q&A: Yes, all data is backed up. Secondly; the NAS is still online with data accessible. What I did: (1) turned the unit off for a week whi...
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Thank you! - Ralph
Could you have mis-read what was happening? When you swap out a drive, it has to sync, not scrub. Pulling a drive during an active sync is a really bad thing, and probably is what killed your volume. I am confused as to why you would replace a 14TB for a 16TB, as you would have gained no additional space. Was there something that drove you to do that that could be a factor here?
Hello & thanks for the replies!
I'm guessing that Marc_V is correct that the array was downgraded before I swapped - I didn't check!
Also realized that I lied about having full backups for that data... there is a portion that I don't have backed up, because it's replaceable for a fee and some PIA, but since the array is working I'm backing up now before making another move.
I'm confident that "resync" did not start with the new 16TB HDD. FWIW, the motivation was to start using all 16Tb drives in the RN316 now that they are available, and use 14TB drives in my OS6 Pro Pioneer. So I had planned on simply moving the 14TB to the Pro Pioneer. From what I saw, all the new big drives are healthy.
I'm curious if I can just swap back in the untouched #1 14TB to get back to where I was two days ago, and then go about fixing the bad drive before moving on?
Thanks much! - Ralph
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