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Tutor

Apr 26, 2016

Upgrading disk capacity on ReadyNAS 314

Hi, I own a ReadyNAS 314, running OS 6.4.0 with 4x WD Red 2TB hard drives to Raid 5 with X-Raid enabled. This gives me c. 5.4TB of usable storage. I'm a photographer and consume a lot of stora...

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mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Apr 27, 2016

You should of course do a quick check of the SMART stats of the disks already in the NAS before starting to replace the disks. If one of the disks appears to be failing then that one should be replaced first. Take out the old disk and put the new disk in the same slot (preferably test the new disk using vendor tools first as StephenB suggested)

rmurgz

Tutor

May 10, 2016

Many thanks for this. Quick question - how do I check the SMART stats of the disks? It looks pretty simple to do on a local devise but I'm struggling to work out how to do it for the NAS disks

rmurgz
Tutor
May 10, 2016
PS Stephen B - thanks for such a comprehensive response - really appreciate the time you took to explain everything.
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  May 10, 2016
  You could hover your mouse over the disks in the web admin interface under System > Volumes, or you could download your logs and look in smart_history.log
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    May 10, 2016
    mdgm wrote:
    
    You could hover your mouse over the disks in the web admin interface under System > Volumes, or you could download your logs and look in smart_history.log
    
    Hovering only gives me the ATA errors, so I suggest downloading the logs. It would be nice if there was a standard scrollbar added to the hover (or if you look at the disk health from within the volume settings).