NV+ won't boot with new harddrive in

sfreemanoh wrote:
Really? I haven't gotten any SMART alerts about it. Though I believe it's one of the original drives, so that would make it probably 3+ years old...

The Load Cycle Counts on your Green drives are huge (well over 1 million) so I'm guessing you probably didn't run WDIDLE3 on them.

The power on hours indicates the disks have been powered on for over 3 and 1/3 years.

One of the key SMART stats we look at is the Current Pending Sector count

***** smartctl output for hdi *****

smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [padre-linux-2.6.17.14ReadyNAS] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Green (Adv. Format)
Device Model:     WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Serial Number:    <REMOVED BY MODERATOR>
Firmware Version: 51.0AB51
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Mon Sep  8 20:26:20 2014 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82)	Offline data collection activity
					was completed without error.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(36060) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x3035)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   196   196   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       2437
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   253   253   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       966
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       31
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   060   060   000    Old_age   Always       -       29611
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       29
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       28
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       1372797
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   118   111   000    Old_age   Always       -       32
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       114
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       2
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   199   198   000    Old_age   Offline      -       447

Your count is non-zero which indicates the disk has a problem.

sfreemanoh wrote:
I don't know if I went to keep getting new drives for this thing, since I'm not really that happy with it. I've been thinking about getting a newer model, especially since I'm almost out of room on this one (only about 400GB's free). /sigh I'll have to consider my options.

Well that's up to you. I would recommend getting a newer model. The NV+ is quite old now. Note that the RAID format is different so you can't simply move disks across. You could however use e.g. backup jobs to copy the data across your network to the new NAS.

I'd still consider keeping the NV+ to use to backup important data from a new NAS.

sfreemanoh wrote:
Any idea what's going on with the new drive/disk 1 though?

Did you add the drive while the NAS was off or while it was on. I recommend adding it while the NAS is on.

Note however that if a drive is failing and the array is already not redundant then doing a resync is a bad idea as it puts heavy stress on all disks. You could encounter a dual-drive failure condition.

The best thing to do is to backup your data as the next step.