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msilverz
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Feb 28, 2017
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ReadyNAS NV+ Frozen at Quota Check

Greetings! I came home to find that my ReadyNAS NV+ (which is at least five years old) had frozen and was invisible to RAIDar. After being turned off and on again, the NV+ started the quota check. Bu...
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    Feb 28, 2017

    Never mind! I popped out drive 1, restarted the NV+, and it booted up normally. I was then able to access the logs where I discovered that drive 1 had indeed been reporting errors: "Disk 1 did not pass SMART self-assessment test. Please replace this disk as soon as possible. Growing SMART errors indicate a disk that may fail soon. If the errors continue to increase, you should be prepared to replace the disk." I didn't receive any alerts to this effect, which is why I was taken by surprise.

     

    Things are working fine now with just a single disc, and procuring a replacement for disc 1 should get everything back to normal.

     

    Matthew

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