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ReadyNAS Duo RND2150 v2 dim blue light and fan always on
I have seen many similar questions and tried the suggested fixes. Have done a firmware reinstall, but the blue light has moved from a slow pulse, to a dim blue light and the fan is running always on....
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Would appreciate some advice frome here. Can I presume the disk is the issue? Should I swap the OK disk into slot 1? Is that a test to see if the bay is the problem and not the disk? Or should I just go buy a disk from the compatibility list for this model?
It is almost certainly the disk - likely the system tried to boot from it and failed. I'd leave disk 2 as it is, and test disk 1 in a windows PC with vendor tools (lifeguard for westen digital, seatools for seagate).
The HCL is long-neglected, so I'd ignore it. A WDC Red or a Seagate Ironwolf are good choices for the duo. The biggest disk your duo can use is 2 TB.
Progress...the system is back up and all data intact.
Firmware is 4.1.16 (1.00a043)
I have removed disk 1 and let the system come back up and now have full access to data. Disk 1 status is 'Dead' presume this is because the bay is empty, although status was dead when the disk was in the bay.
Would appreciate some advice frome here. Can I presume the disk is the issue? Should I swap the OK disk into slot 1? Is that a test to see if the bay is the problem and not the disk? Or should I just go buy a disk from the compatibility list for this model?
Would probably take the opportunity to buy a bigger capacity at this time, and then upgrade the good disk to the same once the volumes have completed a sync.
Thanks for the help.
Andy
wrote:
Would appreciate some advice frome here. Can I presume the disk is the issue? Should I swap the OK disk into slot 1? Is that a test to see if the bay is the problem and not the disk? Or should I just go buy a disk from the compatibility list for this model?
It is almost certainly the disk - likely the system tried to boot from it and failed. I'd leave disk 2 as it is, and test disk 1 in a windows PC with vendor tools (lifeguard for westen digital, seatools for seagate).
The HCL is long-neglected, so I'd ignore it. A WDC Red or a Seagate Ironwolf are good choices for the duo. The biggest disk your duo can use is 2 TB.
Thanks for the help. Disk is dead. Replacement(s) on order.
So I replaced 2 x 500Gb disks with 2 x 2TB disks and followed the instructions to add 1 disk, let in initialise and sync, and then did the second one. The system is back up and running fine, apart from one problem.
If I look at the disk space in volume settings, it would appear that the system is only seeing the 500Gb volume capacity. A few searches tell me I need to do some sort of back up and reformat for the system to use the new capacity. Is that correct? I am not sure what I would back up to? Is there a set of step by step instructions available? (thanks)
Try rebooting, and see if that triggers the vertical expansion.
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