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New larger disks coming up short!
I have a ReadyNAS NV+ V2 [X-RAID], 256MB, which was running 4 X 320G HDD, reported at 294G each. It was chugging away for about 8 months: I got hold of 4 x 1T WD green drives for an upgrade. Believ...
OK, I see now that the unit needs to be rebooted several times. Then it starts resyncing and expansion.
Another few days <sigh>
It would have been simpler and much much quicker to start anew..
OK, I see now that the unit needs to be rebooted several times. Then it starts resyncing and expansion.
Another few days <sigh>
It would have been simpler and much much quicker to start anew..
yea this process is slow
that is why i keep backup and if need be i reformat the disks with new raid level and then restore
Frederico wrote:
It would have been simpler and much much quicker to start anew..
It often is, especially with an NV+ v1, which doesn't support mixed disk sizes.
It shouldn't have taken 4 days to resync the four new disks though - how much user activity was there?
FWIW I probably would have used WD10EFRX (actually I'd have gone to WD20EFRX), as I favor NAS-purposed drives over green. That said, I've had good results with the WD20EARS in my own NV+, those are the original disks I installed about 6 years ago.
StephenB wrote:FWIW I probably would have used WD10EFRX (actually I'd have gone to WD20EFRX), as I favor NAS-purposed drives over green. That said, I've had good results with the WD20EARS in my own NV+, those are the original disks I installed about 6 years ago.
The drives, unused in their original packaging, had been laying around in an IT Dept. store. They are were bought four years ago, so the price was right. They'll do for ad hoc storage and backups. In any case, if I had to pay retail I would have opted for 2Ts.
That said, my main NAS, an HP Proliant NL-40, has been thundering away on 4 X 2T stock standard Seagate drives for four years now, 24/7. Everyone's milage seems to differ when it comes to HDD. Personally I think I've been fortunate.
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