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mwielin
Nov 28, 2025Aspirant
Readynas 104 lost volumes
I have a Readynas 104 with 4 X 2 TB drives RAID 5. All drives healthy. OS 6 Wanting to increase size of the volume, replaced drive 1 with 4 TB drive. Resync started. Within a couple hours of the...
StephenB
Nov 28, 2025Guru - Experienced User
mwielin wrote:Within a couple hours of the resync, disk 4 and system went from degraded to dead
Do you know if the resync completed?
Was disk 4 the new drive? Guessing not, since you put the original in Bay 1, but want to confirm.
mwielin wrote:I did remove the new 4 TB drive and put the original back into bay 1.
Was the NAS powered down when you did this?
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