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very old Readynas nv bay or drive failure please help
HI, I have a very old but up until now reliable readynas nv. Recently one drive failed to the point you could physically hear it wasn't spinning. I purchased another seagate drive hoping I could get ...
I suggest
- powering down the NAS, removing disks and ordering by slot.
- Insert the replacement disk in slot 1 (alone) and power up, doing a factory reset.
- do a basic system setup
- Power down the NAS, and move the disk to slot 2
- Power up and see it if boots.
That should isolate the issue to either the slot or the replacement hard drive.
You can reinstall disks 1,3,4 into their original slots (NAS powered down), and then boot up to get to your current state. If the slot and replacement disk both seem to be working, try to insert the replacement disk back into slot 2 with the NAS running.
Thank you StephenB that has helped isolate the problem.
Every step worked and I insterted the new disk back into drive 2 and left last night. Unfortunatly it hasnt resynced. The act light flashes occasionally and drive2 is flashing yellow continually and is reported as dead in frontview.
Not sure what steps to take next, I dont really want to factory reset as don't want to lose data.
I don't think you understood what StephenB suggested. He asked you to insert the new drive alone, after removing all the others with the power off. Then do the factory reset with just that drive installed. The volume on your uninstalled drives will be just fine (though still no longer redundant).
Your picture shows you left the old drives installed.
Sandshark wrote:
I don't think you understood what StephenB suggested. He asked you to insert the new drive alone, after removing all the others with the power off. Then do the factory reset with just that drive installed.
Correct.
If you do that in slot-1, and the reset succeeds, then the drive is good. If the reset fails, then the drive is at fault.
If it's not the drive, then power down, and try moving that drive to slot 2 (with a normal boot). If that boot fails, then the slot in the NV+ has failed. If it succeeds, the hardware (chassis and drive) are fine.
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