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Hi! I received an alert my volume was degraded (Disk #2). It then told me: Detected increasing reallocated sector count: [606] on disk 2 (Internal) [WDC WD60EFRX-68L0BN1 WD-WX21D5533R6R] 32 times in...
ummjay wrote:
thanks StephenB and MikeD1234 . So now I've backed up the data from my 6TB to the new 10TB drive. Can someone please walk me through the next steps?
Just to be clear, I am assuming that you connected the 10 TB drive to a PC (windows or mac), and backed up the data on the NAS over the network. If you didn't do that, let us know the details, as the steps below might not be correct.
(a) hot-insert the blank 10 TB drive into the NAS, and wait for it to sync.
If the sync is successful, then
(b) remove the 6 TB drive. Hot-insert the other 10 TB drive and format it in the NAS. It will resync and expand the volume to 10 TB.
if the sync fails, then
(c) remove the 6 TB drive and do a factory default with the blank 10 TB drive in place
(d) reconfigure the NAS (recreating shares etc)
(e) copy the files from your current 10 TB drive
(f) hot-insert the current 10 TB drive into the NAS, select it, and format it. It will then sync with the first drive.
Note if you like, you can skip (a) and (b), and instead just do steps (c)-(f). More work, but you would get a completely clean volume and OS partition.
ummjay wrote:
Once I get my 2nd 10TB drive, do I just take out the 6TB, and insert both 10TB (one has my data, and the other would be the new blank one)?
No, that won't work. So don't try that.
ummjay wrote:
I took that drive out (as I have just ordered another one and was looking to replace). I now only have 1 drive in (in Disk 1), and it's red (even though disk state says online). I now get an error:
ummjay - It would be helpful to see the logs. If you want us to do that, then please download the full log zip file. You'll need to put it into cloud storage (dropbox, google drive, etc), and then send someone a private message (PM) with a download link. I'd be happy to take a look. You send a PM using the envelope link in the upper right of the forum page.
Another thing that you can try is to
- power down the NAS
- remove the current drive
- restore the first drive you removed back into its original slot
- power up the NAS
If you can then access your files, make a backup of the data right away.
Once the data is safe, we can try to sort out what went wrong.
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