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drive testing with new diskless RN204
I'm about to set up a new diskless RN204 with two new 6TB Seagate Capacity V4 drives in Raid 1 mode. I'm totally new to the NAS world. I've read a lot of the forum posts and done some searching but ...
Hello JimJ,
Welcome to the community!
You can test the disk with Sea Tools before installing them with the ReadyNAS, that's okay. There is no need to format them just make sure there is no partition as the ReadyNAS will format the disks to ReadyNAS file system format.
When the disks are inserted to the NAS, you will see the disks' images on the admin page of the NAS, their status and activity. Setting it up with RAID1 means there will be just one 1 volume so you will not be able to access the disks individually if you referring to volume. If you want 1 volume for each disk, you need JBOD and not RAID1.
This link might help.
Regards,
It would be nice to be able to test a specific drive (instead of testing all drives in the volume). Perhaps post that idea in the "ideas for storage" forum.
Though on initial install, its fine just to use the default XRAID (which would be RAID-1 with two disks installed), and just let the disk test check them both. If there is a problem, the email alerts and log messages should tell you which disk. RAIDar also can give you the disk status.
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