NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Replacing failed disk in RN426
One day I rebooted my RN426, and one of my disks (disk4, Seagate 3TB) was not longer recognized, so the volume was marked as degraded. Rebooted again, and it came up, volume resynced, everything OK. ...
Your 3TB disks remaining in the NAS have been powered on for about 3.25 years. The ST3000DM001 has notoriously high failure rates when used in RAID arrays.
Your 8TB WD RED is a much better choice.
A few ATA errors in and of itself may not suggest that a disk is failing just yet, but if the count continues to increase rapidly or increases a lot that would suggest a problem.
Yes, definitely true. If I can now just get it to recognize the new Red, I'll be able to slowly swap out the seagates.
Also, something that didn't seem relevant, but I might as well put out there.
Not long before this had some general weirdness about not being able to remove an app (resilio sync), so I did what another forum post suggested (force reinstall the OS by "upgrading" to the existing version 3.9.3 using a downloaded zip archive), and it cleaned that much up at least. After that I was able to uninstall and upgrade the app no problem. However, I think it was at a reboot near that time that the disk4 dropped for good.
I've also noticed that disk4 tended to drop in restarts but not in shutdown-reboot cycles. Potentially something about spin up time perhaps? Sample size is small though, about 3 or so, so I'm not sure this is actually a real effect.
NETGEAR Academy
Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!
