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V1 Dropping out issue
I have been running this particular V1 for ten years and whilst slow at times, it works and generally does the job. The unit has two 1TB drives in there which are mirrored and in the past week, ...
A drive that is giving lots of ATA errors, as your seems to be, can cause problems like that. Hopefully, it is just the drive, because problems in the NAS SATA subsystem can also cause errors of that nature, and would probably not be repairable.
Before you add the replacement drive, you may want to use it or another scratch drive to test the NAS. Remove the existing drives and install just the one (scratch or new, something with no data you care about) in the slot that's currently showing the ATA errors. Let it build a volume and try doing some file transfers. If that goes fine, then power down, swap the drive to the other slot, power up, and do some more file transfers.
Note that if you do use the new drive for this test, don't boot the NAS with it and one driove from your old volume unless you first delete all partitions from the drive. But easier (and, IMHO better, anyway) is just to hot-insert the drive after booting from the one drive that's not giving errors.
Thanks a lot for the information here. I do have a couple of queries though.
1. When you say scratch drive, what do you mean by this?
2. If I remove the apparent defective one from bay one, is this the one which the unit boots from and if so, can it boot from disk two if there's only disk two in there?
3. So I think your suggesting that I pull drive one, boot the system from disk two and then add the new drive to bay one hot. When this procedure is done, data from drive two will copy to drive one.
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