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RN102 XRaid Question
I have been using 2-bay RN102 with a single disk. Now I need to replace that disk with another disk of same size. As per my understanding, adding second disk on RN102 will clone contents of old disk ...
What firmware are you on.
Do you have a backup of the data on disk 1?
Have you rebooted the NAS since adding the disk?
How did you add the new disk, was the NAS on or off? It should have been on.
Was the new disk formatted before you put it in? It should not have been.
Apart from the noise, what else makes you believe the disk is bad. There are no ATA errors, is the other smart info ok?
I notice that the xraid mode is now on - have you just done this or was the initial setup xraid?
Using xraid, assuming you can get the disks to sync, would indeed copy the data onto disk 2. What is not sensible is then to remove disk 1. You are in this position because you are not using raid 1. If you had a raid 1 array then replacing a bad disk is easy, you just replace it.
Do you have a backup of the data on disk 1?
Have you rebooted the NAS since adding the disk?
How did you add the new disk, was the NAS on or off? It should have been on.
Was the new disk formatted before you put it in? It should not have been.
Apart from the noise, what else makes you believe the disk is bad. There are no ATA errors, is the other smart info ok?
I notice that the xraid mode is now on - have you just done this or was the initial setup xraid?
Using xraid, assuming you can get the disks to sync, would indeed copy the data onto disk 2. What is not sensible is then to remove disk 1. You are in this position because you are not using raid 1. If you had a raid 1 array then replacing a bad disk is easy, you just replace it.
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