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Caso
May 09, 2016Aspirant
Failed disk on readynas RN104 JBOD
Hello, I've a readynas RN104 with 4 disks (3Tb, 1Tb, 2Tb and 1Tb). All of these drives are using the JBOD system to have only one volume. I'm receiving alerts to my e-mail telling me that the 4th...
- May 10, 2016
Ok. This is in fact RAID-0, with a total volume capacity of 7 TB.
This is a very fragile mode - if any disk fails you lose all the data in the volume. Anyone using this mode needs to be very careful about backups.
So you should definitely back up the whole volume right away. I suggest getting a new 3 TB drive, and creating a new XRAID volume. You'll lose a little capacity, but disk replacement will be easier in the future.
And keep your backups up to date.
Caso wrote:
If I remove the sick drive, will I only lose the data of this drive or the whole file system integrity will be corrupted?
As noted above, you lose everything.
Retired_Member
May 09, 2016
Caso wrote:4 disks, using the JBOD system to have only one volume
With Flex-RAID, it's possible to have a single JBOD volume built on several drives. If that's the case, then you're gonna have to clone the drive as JBOD does NOT offer any redundancy (be sure you know what you're doing before attempting anything, you CAN lose it all)
If you're using X-RAID, then you have one disk redundancy.
In any case, you should always have a backup (but yeah, if you have a drive that's starting to fail, it's the right moment to update your backup).
If you have a single JBOD, with 2x1TB + 1x2TB + 1x3TB, the capacity of the volume should be about 6-7TB. If you're running X-RAID, it should be around 4TB.
Can you post a screenshot of your volume config (System / Volumes)?
StephenB
May 09, 2016Guru - Experienced User
jak0lantash wrote:
With Flex-RAID, it's possible to have a single JBOD volume built on several drives.
No. You can create a RAID-0 array that spans multiple drives, but that is not JBOD. When we say "JBOD" we mean each disk using its own volume.
I think the OP is using XRAID, since he says "3.7 TB volume", which is exactly what he would see using XRAID with the disk sizes he specifies.
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