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Identifying a failing drive
Hi all, I'm running an original NV with 3x1TB drives. In the last day or so, one of the drives has gotten pretty noisy - it sounds almost like a drive is constantly running and the normal noise th...
Hi again all, just a month or so later, and I appear to have another failing drive. The NAS is again really noisy but the SMART info doesn't show anything that's concerning to me - no retries pending counts or anything. I shut the NAS down and pulled drive #1 as I suspected it might be the bad one (oldest drive) and restarted. NAS was still noisy so as it was booting, I plugged #1 back in. It is now doing a full resync of drive #1 - is that normal? I thought it would just realize it was the same drive and be on its way.
Is there a better way to ID the noisy drive than just repeating the above process with #2 and #3?
Thanks!
Is there a better way to ID the noisy drive than just repeating the above process with #2 and #3?
Thanks!
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