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cindygraeff
Oct 21, 2011Aspirant
ReadyNAS Duo - new disk displays Bad Disk Detected in RAIDar
My Duo has been working fine with the one Seagate 500 gb drive that was originally included with the unit with purchase. I wanted to add a second disk for redundancy. I purchased a Western D...
PapaBear1
Oct 23, 2011Apprentice
You may have unplugged it too early. When performing a factory default with more than one drive (which usually takes about 15-30 minutes) it will synchronize the sectors of all the drives, even though there is no data and it can take 8+ hours. In Frontview during this time the indicator button at the far left will show blue, the indicator under the icon for the device (volume status), if I remember correctly, will be flashing and if you put your cursor on it, it will tell you the percent of completion. If that percent does not change over a period of hours, then something is wrong.
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