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gerta
Jun 16, 2016Follower
Multiple disk failures on ReadyNAS Pro 6
We experienced a failure on one of our two, redundant ReadyNAS Pro 6 devices. The file system went wonky (missing folders and files) before any error was reported by the system, and it ultimately end...
StephenB
Jun 16, 2016Guru - Experienced User
The system sometimes will declare drives to be dead when they aren't, so you should confirm it. Test the drives in a Windows PC with vendor tools (seatools for seagate, lifeguard for western digital), and take a look at the SMART stats while you are at it. Then you will know...
Do you run the maintanance functions (scrub) If you never run scrubs or file system scans, then it is possible that you had failures that were undetected until you tried to read from or write to a failing section of the disk. The system resyncs, and then of course it reads/writes every sector in the data volume - and that can uncover problems you didn't know you had.
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