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Issue Replacing Disks | RN316 automatically shut down instead of rebuilding RAID array
So is this normal behaviour? Or is this a bug in the software?
I have a RN316 with 6 x 4TB HDDs ina a RAID 5 configuration.
There is less than 5% free space left.
So I want to replace all o...
Hi Platypus69, from your description I understand, that in step 4 the nas announced that shutdown you later experienced. So, finally all worked out as designed according to your post. I would probably have waited with inserting the new 10TB disk until the shutdown/reboot would have happened. Imho, you are lucky, that you are not in trouble now. Sometimes Netgear's nas are more tolerant against (unwise, I would call it) user activities as one could expect.
Kind regards
Thanks for your reply, although I do not understand it. :catsurprised:
The recommendation seems to be to always replace a disk while the system is hot. as opposed to shuting down NAS, replacing HDD and booting it up.
Why would I wait for a shutdown? It was not a reboot.
Can you please elaborate on why I am lucky, or what I did that was unwise, as I seem to have followed best and/or recommend practice.
Platypus69 wrote: "Can you please elaborate on why I am lucky, or what I did that was unwise, as I seem to have followed best and/or recommend practice."
To my opinion it was unwise (lets call it "very brave", if you like that synonym instead), to not let a system complete an announced shutdown peacefully, which was alreay in degraded status at that point of time. But instead confuse it during its preparation for shutdown by changing the environment (pushing in the new disk).
To my opinion you were lucky, because you made an assumption about your system's behaviour, which turned out not to be true and you were not sufffering any consequences.
By the way, you might want to enable email notification in the future, which would alert you about this kind of issue (disk failure).
I think, you ended up with the best of all possible worlds, fortunately :-)
Kind regards
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