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ReadyNAS Pro 6 - web "connection refused"
I had an email an hour ago from my very old ReadyNAS Pro 6 about a failed drive. Fine, no problem. But when I went to use the web interface to see which drive, I get nothing but "connection refused" ...
Sunfox1 wrote:
Since I've got my data - and incidentally after all that we're up to 2 drives failed now - and assuming the web UI ain't coming back... is there any way to get a clean OS back onto this?
The safest way is to do a factory default, reconfigure the NAS, and restore data from the backup.
You could try an USB recovery.
Mildly interesting statistics on these 3TB drives.
Both drives that just outright failed were Seagate Constellation CS SED with 2014 date codes. The only ones of that exact model I'm using.
The drive still working but with bad sectors is a Barracuda recertified, 2013 build date, 2016 certification date (I think this was a warranty replacement).
The 3 drives still working are 2x Barracuda XTs with 2011 dates, and a Constellation ES.3 with a 2015 date (think a replacement I got for a failed drive).
All of these drives have been running 24x7 since purchase, with those Barracuda XT's running since January 2012 when I bought the NAS.
Wish I could add to prior posts.
I pulled the old array entirely, installed 3 working drives just for it to have something to use that isn't going to die, did a factory reset on it, used RAIDar to set it up, and now I have the web interface back and functional.
Since that's working, I'm next going to upgrade the memory, then perform the steps to upgrade to OS6.
FWIW, I have an old NV+ v1 still in service that was purchased in 2010. It's still using all four of the original Western Digital WD20EARS drives.
One of the drives has one re-allocated sector, the others have none.
Think my oldest "in use" drive is the 500gb system drive that came with my HP Mediasmart way back in 2009. Not my first NAS, but the first "good" one.
Anyhow, success! Upgraded the stock 1gb to 4gb memory, and now it's running 6.10.8 and I'm just busy reconfiguring everything through - finally - a modern web browser. Got my bonded link going, proper email alerts... nice to have way more modern features on it. Funnily enough, the web UI is also a lot more responsive than it was.
Any settings I should look for? It's been SO LONG since I set up the original unit I can't even remember what I did.
And last but not least, yet another drive failure. It wasn't new - I just stuck in 3x 8tb drives that recently came out of another NAS. One was suspect but working last time it was powered up... and after about 5 minutes, it proved to be fully suspect. Man, I'm just having the greatest luck with old drives this month!
Sunfox1 wrote:
Any settings I should look for?
Snapshots are a feature you should be intentional about.
Don't enable them on shares with a lot of "churn" (live databases or torrents).
I do have them enabled on most shares. But I don't recommend the "Smart" snapshots. The monthly snapshots are retained indefinitely, which eventually will lead to too much disk storage. Instead use "custom" snapshots with limited retention. I set the option to only take snapshots when changes occur in the main share as well.
- Thanks! I actually saw that being enabled by default and turned it off on almost everything. That could seriously bloat disk usage considering this is primarily for media storage.
First time I logged in I had a red “system fan is not working” on the overview, but when I went to check the details page, it was fine and the warning disappeared.
Since I’ve also replaced the PSU a couple years ago, I suspect this should keep working for a while to come.
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