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RN104 trying to replace a disk
Hi, I've been running a RN104 for many years without issue till we had a power failure last week. RN104 is now flashing 'Degraded', and disk 3 is flashing. Contents 4No. WD 1TB Caviar disks runnin...
Note that doing this successfully will put a volume on the drive. So when you put it together with the others, it will show up as a bad volume. To make sure things don't get confused, you should destroy the volume before you combine the drive with the others or remove all partitions using a PC before you combine them.
Hi Sandshark, thanks for that, but now I am confused, and concerned about having to delete volumes etc. I could loose all my data? I thought this was a hot swap device. I was all ready to try the things as earlier suggested, but now it seems there are further issues to contend with.
I have downloaded the software and hardware manual for this and cannot see anything that mentions what to do if a disk becomes degraded. There is nothing in the control panel that actually says which disk has an issue - It just says volume degraded.
The only indication I have is the flashing No3 on the device. and the control panel showed no drive in No.3 before I swapped them out.
Do you know if there is a manual that explains all this or does it rely on questions to the community ?
I was telling you what will happen with the single new drive if you use it to test the NAS as StephenB suggested. Once you are finished using it alone, it's best to not put it in the NAS with the other disks until you've "unformatted" it, so the NAS won't see the separate volume the testing created and not know what to do with it. You don't delete anything on the remaining good drives from your original volume.
Yes, it's normally hot-swappable. But something is amiss on your system, and it could be the new drive or the chassis (SATA backplane, most likely, if it's not the drive), so the suggested testing lets you figure out which it is.
Thanks for the few inputs on the issue
A little while longer and I've got to the bottom of it.
Disk 3 had failed, but so had the 3rd drive slot.
Worked out Netgear seem to have distanced from the NAS market at the moment so I've rescued the three remaining disks, thrown the box in the bin and bought a Synology 920+.
I had a second 104 so just renamed that the same as the first so I could continue to work. Synology almost up to speed as the replacement main unit.
In this work I also found that my Third nas ReadyNAS NV+ is out of date and one can no longer get to the control panel (Thanks for letting us know Netgear). so that has been dismantled and now in the bin too.
The follow on question I now have is how to do I do a Mirror backup from the Synology to the 104, like I used to between the two 104s ?
JC15973 wrote:
In this work I also found that my Third nas ReadyNAS NV+ is out of date and one can no longer get to the control panel (Thanks for letting us know Netgear). so that has been dismantled and now in the bin too.
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