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Aspirant

Jul 27, 2016

Drive bay #2 defect?

I'm using a NAS 102 with 2 WD red 3TB disks in a RAID1 configuration since a long time without problems. When I returned from vacations and powered on the NAS again, the second disk LED was blinking ...

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JennC

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 28, 2016

Hello GerdH,

Checking on your profile, it seems you can contact support center and ask for HW check on the chassis. This still has HW warranty,

Welcome to the community!

Regards,

GerdH

Aspirant

Jul 29, 2016

Thanks for your replays!

After the problems started, I attached an external drive for backup.

During the backup, the NAS discovered the disk in the second bay again and resynced successfully!

Up to now it runs without further problems.

Probably the NAS has some contact problems at the SATA connector of the second bay.

I'm not sure now, if I should return the NAS on guaranty or keep it as it is ...

JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 29, 2016
Hello GerdH,

Thanks for letting us know it works now after all those steps you have shared.

You may close this topic by marking a post as an accepted solution.

Keep posting anything about your NAS that is worth sharing and if you have question too. We appreciate your contribution!

Regards,
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 30, 2016
GerdH wrote:

I'm not sure now, if I should return the NAS on guaranty or keep it as it is ...

It does sound like it might be an intermittent issue with the chassis.

It might be worth reaching out to mdgm and/or skywalker, and seeing if they'd be willing to look at your logs.