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Hello all, I have a RN316 with a EDA500. There are 2 volumes, one on the RN316 and one on the EDA500. I had a disk fail in the RN316, and I would like to take a disk out of the EDA500 and pu...
I agree you shouldn't just move it.
Instead try connecting it to a PC first - either with SATA or a USB adapter/dock. Ideally you'd unformat it (deleting the partitions in windows disk manager, or zeroing the disk with seatools). You could reformat it instead - and then reformat it again when you put it in the NAS.
But given the glacial "speed" of resyncing a EDA500 array, I'd get a new disk for the NAS instead. But don't get a DM drive (many of the newer ones have changed over to SMR). Instead get an Ironwolf.
Thanks all,
Because the data on the EDA500 is trivial , I yanked one of the EDA500 disks, and deleted the partitions from a windows box. I dropped it into the RN316, and it started rebuilding right away.
I'll be getting 2 Ironwolf drives next week, one for a replacement into the EDA500, and one as a cold spare for the next one that fails. :)
This is another instance where being able to move a share (and it's settings) between volumes would be a very useful. I'd also love to be able to convert from RAID 5 to RAID 6 without having to nuke the volumes first.
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