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Leif55
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Jun 04, 2019
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Did I Lose All My Data ReadyNAS NV+ V2

Hello,   Increasing error logs on disk 3 indicated that it was time to get a replacement hard drive (the other three disks were healthy). Before adding the new drive the NAS was powered down with d...
  • StephenB's avatar
    Jun 05, 2019

    Leif55 wrote:

    In this state I powered up the system and inserted disk 4 (old healthy drive) and then drive 3 (new drive). Before adding the new drives I missed seeing following error log:

     


    XRAID/RAID-5 can only handle one failure/missing disk not two.  So this is where you messed up.  You should have inserted disk 4 before you powered up the system.

     

    Try powering down and removing disk 3.  Then power up again and see if the system comes up in degraded mode.  If you are very lucky it didn't get around to formatting disk 4.

     

     

     

     

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