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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- Firmware - 6.1.6
Do you have a backup of the data on disk 1? NAS is just couple of months old, most of data is from my PC and external HD. So I think I have backup
Have you rebooted the NAS since adding the disk? No, should I?
How did you add the new disk, was the NAS on or off? It should have been on. NAS was off, when I added it? Is that a problem?
Was the new disk formatted before you put it in? It should not have been. Nope, its brand new hard disk as-is
Apart from the noise, what else makes you believe the disk is bad. There are no ATA errors, is the other smart info ok? Where do I see SMART status for a NAS drive? I called WD support and they said disk has to be replaced if there is too much noise.
I notice that the xraid mode is now on - have you just done this or was the initial setup xraid? XRaid has been on always.
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. Not sure if I follow, if I need to replace disk1 with disk2 what do I need to do? Just manually copy all the contents from disk1 to disk2? I thought adding disk2 will switch NAS to RAID1 and once I remove disk1, it switches off RAID. To clarify, I'm not going to add soon, may be few months later. So right now I'm just replacing old disk with new one, by-2 will be empty afterwards.
Do you have a backup of the data on disk 1? NAS is just couple of months old, most of data is from my PC and external HD. So I think I have backup
Have you rebooted the NAS since adding the disk? No, should I?
How did you add the new disk, was the NAS on or off? It should have been on. NAS was off, when I added it? Is that a problem?
Was the new disk formatted before you put it in? It should not have been. Nope, its brand new hard disk as-is
Apart from the noise, what else makes you believe the disk is bad. There are no ATA errors, is the other smart info ok? Where do I see SMART status for a NAS drive? I called WD support and they said disk has to be replaced if there is too much noise.
I notice that the xraid mode is now on - have you just done this or was the initial setup xraid? XRaid has been on always.
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. Not sure if I follow, if I need to replace disk1 with disk2 what do I need to do? Just manually copy all the contents from disk1 to disk2? I thought adding disk2 will switch NAS to RAID1 and once I remove disk1, it switches off RAID. To clarify, I'm not going to add soon, may be few months later. So right now I'm just replacing old disk with new one, by-2 will be empty afterwards.
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