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ReadyNAS NV+ v2 does not synchronize after replacing 2 disks
Hello, our Nas recently broke down and two HDDs crashed at the same time. We then replace them with the same Model and inserted them. Now we can access the admin backend again. Though there...
Heller wrote:
Uh i didnt knew that.
Though its a XRAID 2 System.
In the manual it says that two disks can fail.
If you had selected RAID-6 (or xraid dual redundancy) then it can recover from two disk failures. But those are not the defaults,
XRAID2 was just an improved XRAID- the name doesn't mean it can handle two disk failures.
Heller wrote:
I saw it here: X-RAID2 requires a minimum of two hard disks to provide protection against disk failure.
You unfortunately misunderstood that sentence. It says you need at least two disks to have some protection. It does not say that you will have protection from two simultaneous disk failures.
Heller wrote:
If we would somehow recover at least one disk and copy it on a fresh one, would it then work?
One option is to try to clone the two failing disks.
But the more things you try on your own, the bigger the risk of creating more damage, If you want to work on this yourself, then the safest thing is to clone all four drives before experimenting.
There's a dedicated team of data recovery experts at Netgear support, so if the data is precious enough to justify the cost, it would be best to use them.
Uh i didnt knew that.
Though its a XRAID 2 System.
In the manual it says that two disks can fail.
If we would somehow recover at least one disk and copy it on a fresh one, would it then work?
"X-RAID2" is the name of the feature (to compare with "X-RAID" on old Sparc units).
Unless you have more than 6 HDDs, your X-RAID2 volume will be running a RAID5 (or RAID1 if two HDDs). So only one HDD redundancy.
Where did you see on the manual that it says two HDD redundancy?
I saw it here: X-RAID2 requires a minimum of two hard disks to provide protection against disk failure.
https://www.netgear.com/images/pdf/WP_XRAID2vsFlexRAID%20_12May14.pdf
second page.
I have a 4 disk nas btw.
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