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Volume Data Degraded
Hello, Since i replaced the Faulty HDD NASbox displaying Status is Degraded. this issue first time come after replaced the HDD.
One aspect is that the NAS won't add a formatted disk to the array. So if your disk was formatted (for instance in Windows), you need to select it on the volume tab, and then format it again. If that succeeds, the disk should be added to the array.
Another possibility of course is that the disk is bad. Personally I test my disks in a Windows PC with vendor tools (seatools for seagate, lifeguard for western digital) before I put them in the NAS. I run the extended read test, and follow that up with the full erase/write test.
Are you using FlexRAID or XRAID?
Was the new disk formatted?
XRAID.
One aspect is that the NAS won't add a formatted disk to the array. So if your disk was formatted (for instance in Windows), you need to select it on the volume tab, and then format it again. If that succeeds, the disk should be added to the array.
Another possibility of course is that the disk is bad. Personally I test my disks in a Windows PC with vendor tools (seatools for seagate, lifeguard for western digital) before I put them in the NAS. I run the extended read test, and follow that up with the full erase/write test.
Hi,
i shutdown the NASBOX and removed That New HDD and connected to Windows pc and Re-formatated. and inserted again as it is and now it is showing in Syncing process since inserted.
i have attached the snapshot.
It's actually odd that that worked. Normally, you have to unformat (remove partitioning) in Windows or format with the NAS itself, since the NAS does not use a Windows format and will not just wipe out an existing formatted drive in case you did not realize it will format it and there was something on the drive that you wanted to retain.
Older ReadyNAS OS's would just move forward, and after too many "What happened to all my family photos that were on that drive?" instances with users who didn't RTFM, Netgear changed that in OS6.
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