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RuudB
Sep 20, 2017Aspirant
Trouble with the disk in tray 1
I have a very strange problem. The disc in Tray 1 will no longer connect. I thought the disk was crashing, or at least the boot sector. After some repair attempts (CHKDSK and so on), I concluded that...
StephenB
Sep 20, 2017Guru - Experienced User
What size is the IronWolf drive? The duo v1 is limited to 2 TB.
RuudB
Sep 20, 2017Aspirant
2Tb
- StephenBSep 20, 2017Guru - Experienced User
Then it sounds like the first bay has failed (esp. if the same disk+tray works in slot 2).
If so, there's nothing that can be done - you'll either need to live w/o RAID or get a new NAS. The RN212 is the currently shipping equivalent to the Duo. It's much faster, handles modern disk sizes, and has a lot more features.
- RuudBSep 20, 2017Aspirant
Thank you Stephen I was already afraid of it 👎😜🙁
Thanks for the quick reply.
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