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Old HDD - Unable To View
Hi All, I have a ReadyNAS102 which wurs away just fine setup as RAID 1. Last year I replaced 2 x 3TB Seagate drives due to one suspected failing. I now need to access the working drive to re...
Hi and thanks for your reply.
The disks I bought I found were not suitable for the NAS as it is spinning almost 24/7 so I swapped for a better model / smaller in size from 3TB to 2TB.
Yes the data is only stored on both drives. Although I saw one failed, It still works but the NAS reported issues. When I plug it in to the reader, they both show in Disk Management as healthy.
Unfortunately no idea about firmware as I keep my NAS up to date when prompted. Firmware is now the latest I think 6.5.2 (sorry not in front of it atm)
When I bought my NAS I thought that I could just fill the disk up, remove them and store them ready for access later. I have a high turn over of data (photography) and my drives in the NAS now are almost full. Bit confused as to how to move forward with this as I may have to change my strategy!
The disks I bought I found were not suitable for the NAS as it is spinning almost 24/7 so I swapped for a better model / smaller in size from 3TB to 2TB.
Yes the data is only stored on both drives. Although I saw one failed, It still works but the NAS reported issues. When I plug it in to the reader, they both show in Disk Management as healthy.
Unfortunately no idea about firmware as I keep my NAS up to date when prompted. Firmware is now the latest I think 6.5.2 (sorry not in front of it atm)
When I bought my NAS I thought that I could just fill the disk up, remove them and store them ready for access later. I have a high turn over of data (photography) and my drives in the NAS now are almost full. Bit confused as to how to move forward with this as I may have to change my strategy!
I never recommand the step you took, the only thing allowed when a drive fails is to replace by a disk with same or greater capacity NEVER with a smaller one!
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