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RN316 Drive upgrade
Hey community. I had recently sn Experiance which appeared that there was a failed drive upgrade on my RN316 which had 3x 8TB and 3TB 3TB I replaced the bay 4 which was a 3TB with an 8TB and for som...
AKLGUY wrote:
Thank you StephenB I will give that a go this weekend.
If it is the 3TB in bay 5 that is bad I guess I can put in the 3TB i took out of Bay 4 right? Just format it first?I suggested testing the old Bay 4 drive first on your other thread, just to make sure it is healthy. If you run the write zeros test, you will not need to format it.
AKLGUY wrote:
it shouldn't matter that bay 4 is a 7200 RPM drive while all the others ate 5900 right?
It shouldn't, and I have used mis-matched speeds myself. Sandshark had an issue once (related to spinup time), but I think that was unusual. FWIW, there is no reason why the mismatch would target drive 5, and not the others.
AKLGUY wrote:
I do a disc check and after 2 days it says that the drive in bay 5 has failed. Is ther any reason why the light for bay 4 will be on instead of bay 5?
That seems odd, and you might want to confirm that drive 5 has failed and not the new drive. You can power down, and test both in a Windows PC with vendor tools (Seatools for Seagate, either Lifeguard or the Digital Dashboard tools for Western Digital).
- Thank you StephenB I will give that a go this weekend.
If it is the 3TB in bay 5 that is bad I guess I can put in the 3TB i took out of Bay 4 right? Just format it first?
AKLGUY wrote:
Thank you StephenB I will give that a go this weekend.
If it is the 3TB in bay 5 that is bad I guess I can put in the 3TB i took out of Bay 4 right? Just format it first?I suggested testing the old Bay 4 drive first on your other thread, just to make sure it is healthy. If you run the write zeros test, you will not need to format it.
- You’re helping in the other older thread which I though had issues so created a new one let’s this one close
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