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Pro 4 Failed Drives
I have a Pro 4 and had one hard drive fail. While replacing it the new hard drive installed and came up as a spare. I do not think it is part of the Raid 5 disk. Is there a way to force it on?
I'd suggest support but as you probably know those drives are not on the HCL.
Are you backing up the data?
With another disk failing you are really in trouble without a backup. You could clone all 3 remaining disks before another completely fails but of course you need 3 spare disks to do this.
Don't keep reinserting the disk as each time it's ting to resync and putting load on the other disks.
Have you tested the new disk with seatools?
What indicates another disk is failing? This may be why the NAS cannot add the drive to the array.
I don't know how to force the disk to join the array in this situation other than by factory defaulting.
Are you backing up the data?
With another disk failing you are really in trouble without a backup. You could clone all 3 remaining disks before another completely fails but of course you need 3 spare disks to do this.
Don't keep reinserting the disk as each time it's ting to resync and putting load on the other disks.
Have you tested the new disk with seatools?
What indicates another disk is failing? This may be why the NAS cannot add the drive to the array.
I don't know how to force the disk to join the array in this situation other than by factory defaulting.
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