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pjcools
Jan 28, 2014Aspirant
Readynas Duo & Swapping out Disk 1
Hi I have an old Readynas Duo V1 (2 bay) with 2 2TB drives in them. For some time I have noticed the errors creeping up on Disk 1 and ATA errors occuring. When I power down and power up sometimes t...
vandermerwe
Jan 29, 2014Master
Do you have a backup of the data on the nas? This is really important.
The reallocated sector count on disk 1 is huge, most users would advise replacing disks when this reaches about 50.
You need to replace disk 1. There is one risk here that, as the volume rebuilds (the data will be synchronised from disk 2 to disk 1), the additional workload on disk 2 may cause it to fail. If this occurs during the rebuild you will lose all your data.
I would suggest doing a backup before you replace the disk if you can.
You need to do this now.
The reallocated sector count on disk 1 is huge, most users would advise replacing disks when this reaches about 50.
You need to replace disk 1. There is one risk here that, as the volume rebuilds (the data will be synchronised from disk 2 to disk 1), the additional workload on disk 2 may cause it to fail. If this occurs during the rebuild you will lose all your data.
I would suggest doing a backup before you replace the disk if you can.
You need to do this now.
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