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Readynas 316 Volume is degraded (but all disks green)
So I have my system setup for X-Raid 5, Everythings been going good, but all of a sudden I have this volume degraded error. I have lost a disk before and it was pretty obvious that the disk had faile...
Ya I know I wont get to use the most of my 12TB. My thinking was (and my thinking could be right out of her), once one drive failed, the others were sure to follow. Ive had this NAS for a number of years and I went through several configurations before going with X-Raid 5, so I feel Ive been pretty hard on the drives and wasn't super surprised when one blew. Assuming the rest will blow soon, I plan on replacing all of them with 12TB as they go.
I did not hot swap the drives, Im not sure if its because I learned to use computers in the 90s, but I am distrustful of all automated processes on computers lol, Even though it should be hot swapable, I never trust it. But in the interst of troubleshooting I did as you described and booted it with the 12TB out and got swapped it in once booted.
Curiously the drive now shows as black rather than blue, indicating it is not part of the raid volume anymore. And of course the volume is still degraded. Can we add this disk back into the volume and rsync it somehow?
Thanks for all the help btw, this community is awesome for answering questions
armybill wrote:
Can we add this disk back into the volume and rsync it somehow?
You can try clicking on the drive, and then clicking on "format". After the format, it should be automatically added an XRAID volume. With FlexRaid, you'd need to add it to the volume manually.
Stephen B, you are the man!
After I read your message and refreshed the page, it actually was showing as red, and gave me a message saying the drive was part of another volume and needed to be formatted, and once I did it started to resync. Crazy, I wonder how it got confused?
Anyways, thank you so much!
I'm glad it's working again - let us know if there are any more issues after the resync.
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