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ReadyNAS Duo freezes during resync - what to do?
Hi! I've had my faithful ReadyNAS Duo with 1 TB drives in RaidX config for many years and it's worked like a charm. But this morning I got a message that one of the drives was showing increasing numbe...
This is how it worked out:
Regardless of what I did (booting with one or the other or both drives) I could not get the Duo back on track. I decided to check both drives with WD Data Lifguard Diagnostic, and it turned out that one had partitions but didn't pass the diagnostic test (massive read errors and solid red SMART test) while the other drive was free of faults but completely blank (no partitions or file system).
My conclusion is that doing a resync (as I did because that was what my Duo told me to do) is probably not a good idea when there is one bad drive in the system. I feel truly disappointed with the ReadyNAS Duo, since the first time my redundant and hotswappable unit has a disk failure, I lost all my data. If one bad disk leads to the other disk being wiped clean, the system doesn't work as it should.
I now made a factory reset with the fault-free drive and am waiting for my newly ordered drive to arrive Monday before making a fresh backup of my other (Ultra) NAS.
Thanks for yout support here, appreciated!
Regardless of what I did (booting with one or the other or both drives) I could not get the Duo back on track. I decided to check both drives with WD Data Lifguard Diagnostic, and it turned out that one had partitions but didn't pass the diagnostic test (massive read errors and solid red SMART test) while the other drive was free of faults but completely blank (no partitions or file system).
My conclusion is that doing a resync (as I did because that was what my Duo told me to do) is probably not a good idea when there is one bad drive in the system. I feel truly disappointed with the ReadyNAS Duo, since the first time my redundant and hotswappable unit has a disk failure, I lost all my data. If one bad disk leads to the other disk being wiped clean, the system doesn't work as it should.
I now made a factory reset with the fault-free drive and am waiting for my newly ordered drive to arrive Monday before making a fresh backup of my other (Ultra) NAS.
Thanks for yout support here, appreciated!
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