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Tarv
Nov 22, 2014Aspirant
Two disks failed in array, will Acronis clone work?
Have a ReadyNas Pro 6 with a 6 disk X-RAID2 array. Disks 2 and 3 started reporting reallocated sectors a few days apart, and shortly after started reporting uncorrectable errors. I tried to replac...
StephenB
Nov 24, 2014Guru - Experienced User
You can't swap out two dead drives at once. Even replacing one at a time will likely cause problems. Your best strategy is to do a fresh factory install with the new drives in place.
Basically the process is
(a) back up the configuration and save the data. Note any add-ons you have installed.
(b) do a factory reset on the NAS using the boot menu
(c) reinstall the add-ons
(d) restore the configuration
(e) restore the data.
You need to do (c) before (d).
Basically the process is
(a) back up the configuration and save the data. Note any add-ons you have installed.
(b) do a factory reset on the NAS using the boot menu
(c) reinstall the add-ons
(d) restore the configuration
(e) restore the data.
You need to do (c) before (d).
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