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ReadyNAS 214 won't recognize replaced drive
RN214 I've had for a number of years had its first disk issues: lots of ATA errors for disk 4 and "degraded" status for the RAID-5 volume. I bought two new drives from Newegg (Toshiba DT01ACA200, sam...
I'm unable to find my SATA cable (it's a moving box somewhere) but both drives fail the "try it alone in slot 1" test. After the RN214 boots and gets on the network, the admin UI shows "no drives detected". I'm going to return both drives to NewEgg.
I found this post about choosing replacement drives. It applies to a "voluntary" replacement; in your opinion, would one of the recommended drives (8TB WD "Red" or Seagate "Ironwolf") also be suitable for replacing a failing drive?
Thanks so much for your help!
PerlDiver wrote:
I found this post about choosing replacement drives. It applies to a "voluntary" replacement; in your opinion, would one of the recommended drives (8TB WD "Red" or Seagate "Ironwolf") also be suitable for replacing a failing drive?
One of my old posts.
WD branding has changed - WD "Red" drives are now all SMR, which I do NOT recommend. WD Red Plus and Ironwolf are both good choices for the RN214. I generally purchase on of those drives for my own NAS (and pick whatever seems cheaper at the moment). At the moment, Amazon has the Seagates for a bit less.
Either way, I'd go with 2x8 TB instead of 4x2 TB. That gives you 2 TB more capacity than you had before, plus two empty slots for expansion later on.
Damn, I jumped the gun and already ordered a WD Red Pro (not Plus) WD8003FFBX 8TB. Is that one going to cause me grief?
PerlDiver wrote:
Damn, I jumped the gun and already ordered a WD Red Pro (not Plus) WD8003FFBX 8TB. Is that one going to cause me grief?
It's fine. The Red Pro are enterprise class drives and don't use SMR. Ironwolf and Red Plus are cheaper, so I generally recommend them for desktop NAS. But enterprise drives are also good choices.
The volume is healthy again!
Should I have expected an increase in size of the volume because of the increase of drive 4 from 2TB to 8TB. My conjecture is that that can't happen because there's not sufficient space on the other three drives to represent redundancy of additional data; have I got that right? Would a second 8TB drive boost the size of the volume, or do I need to upsize all of the remaining three?
Thanks so much for your patience and help with this; I apologize for my ignorance.
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