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ReadyNAS 2120 Stuck Starting Up
Have a ReadyNAS 2120 that has been getting slow to access. This morning the web interface prompts for login, but eventually times out after entering user/pw. Running RAIDar shows status "System sta...
A reasonable next step is to power down the NAS and test the disks one at a time in a Windows PC using vendor tools (Seatools for Seagate, Dashboard for Western Digital). You can connect the disks to the PC using a usb adapter/dock. The PC won't recognize the format, but these tools will find the disks.
I suggest labeling the disks by slot as you remove them.
I reseated the drives and now it's up with a status of Volume data is syncing. Now that I can access the web interface I saw this
Replacing that drive will be my first order of business.
Hopefully, it will complete. Or if it doesn't, it won't do any harm in trying. Doing a re-sync with a known bad drive is risky. That's why StephenB was recommending you check the drives -- so you could replace the bad one before it started trying to re-sync.
So far it's doing it's thing and is accessible via SMB. Just won't load the admin web page. I have an external hooked to it that it was backing itself up to, so there's that. I'm still going to copy some important stuff to another NAS I have while waiting for a new drive. I think as a matter of course I'm going to replace the rest of the drives over the next week or two since they are all the same age.
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