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need help understanding RAID level x2
Using this ReadyNAS with two drives inside it in a Mac system. It's exhibiting problems showing up on Raidar, etc. It finally booted up and I get this warning on Raidar: I need to understand...
The new drive will be blank, an dthe NAS will take care of partitioning and formatting it.
You could mount the drive in a linux system (with BTRFS installed), bu not on a PC running windows.
Got the new drive and I basically just hot swapped it for the dead drive (on the left in the chassis). I left it running overnight and as of this morning, the Readynas doesn't seem to be doing anything with the new drive I installed. I use the app that launches (a recently downloaded "Raidar" download. See image in my first post in this message stream). The info in the window is identical and hasn't changed. Still says the left drive is dead and isn't recognizing the new drive. Anything I can do about this?
Thank you.
Did you remove the old disk/reinsert the new one with the NAS running?
Is there anything in the web admin UI's log page showing that the system "saw" the removal and insertion, and is resyncing?
The admin web ui is a better way to see what's going on than RAIDar. RAIDar is most useful for NAS discovery and for providing status when the admin web ui is not responding.
Did you remove the old disk/reinsert the new one with the NAS running?
Yes.
Is there anything in the web admin UI's log page showing that the system "saw" the removal and insertion, and is resyncing?
I don't know how to access web admin UI. I am using a Mac if that is relevant.
The admin web ui is a better way to see what's going on than RAIDar. RAIDar is most useful for NAS discovery and for providing status when the admin web ui is not responding.
Understood. How do I access web admin UI, please? I would have done it long ago if it was suggested anywhere in the Raidar UI where a link to it would make sense.
I HAVE said it more then once on this thread.
You do it from Safari (or whatever browser you are using).
https://nas-ip-address/admin or https://nas-name/admin RAIDar should give you the actual NAS IP address (and you likely already know the host name).
You'll get a user/password prompt. The username is admin, the password is whatever password you set on the NAS. The default password on your NAS model is password
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