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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.
thanks everyone. So I'm expecting my new 10tb drive to arrive this Thursday. What I am thinking of doing is to backup all my data from my 6TB drive that I can currently get the data from, to the new 10TB drive. Assuming all I need to do is, leave the right disc in place (which has the data), and insert the 10TB drive on the left? If so, do I want to boot up my NAS in read only mode, or let it sync automatically? How do I know that it will think the right disc is the primary, and needs to copy over to the left disk? once I get that sorted and backed up to the new 10tb drive. Assume the next steps are to take out the new (now with all my data) 10TB drive, and look to reformat the 2 bad 6TB drives, to see if any can be salvaged?
Understood on making sure both drives are the same size. I'd have to order another 10TB drive, which should take some time to get after I receive my initial one this Thurs.
I will try and get the logs over. I had issues downloading it, and was afraid to leave the ReadyNAS on too long, as I only have 1 drive, and somewhat a miracle I have the data, so didn't want to risk loosing it by keeping the ReadyNAS on longer.
Is there another way to download the logs, other than clicking the download logs from the admin panel?
Thanks!
Your plan of just adding a new 10TB is very risky given that you already suspect both old drives of having issues. A sync is very drive intensive, and if your old drive fails during it, you will lose all your data. You really need to make a true backup of your data before you do that, as StephenB is recommending. RAID is not a "true backup". While RAID does provide redundancy, it's not immune to problems that can cause you to lose your data. A true backup is on a separate device or in the cloud.
It would be best if you chose a backup method that you can keep up to date for any future issues. StephenB's suggestion of using the new 10TB's as a temporary solution is just that, temporary.
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