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Replacing disk in a single drive ReadyNAS 102
ReadyNAS 102 with a single 4TB WD drive was having some quirks after about 1.5 years. NAS says drive is healthy, WD Diags from a desktop says bad sectors. I have a replacement drive but I am concer...
You can run the drive test from the GUI.
Select "volumes", then the settings wheel, and then "volume schedule". One of the choices you can schedule is "disk test".
It really should also be on the main settings wheel, not sure how that got overlooked.
Grill-n-Chill wrote:
I have a replacement drive but I am concerned that if I just slide it in to the second bay that it will try to use it to expand it's storage capacity.
I know this is resolved for you, but thought I should reply for future readers.
With xraid, the second disk is automatically used for redundancy - creating a RAID-1 array. If you had 4 slots, adding a third 4 TB drive would give you a RAID-5 volume (still single redundancy) with 8 TB capacity.
It seems as though that would create a raid when in fact I operate with a single drive. Once the raid is made and mirrored then would not removing the bad drive result in a raid error status. At that point how would one tell the NAS to operate as non-raid? Thank you.
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