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Asto
Aspirant
May 21, 2017

New drive - Volume degraded

Hi, I have had a RN102 with a 3TB Segate drive working happily for several years. I recently added a 3TB WD Red drive, so that I have redundancy protection. ON power up, it starts to synchronise but...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
May 21, 2017
Asto wrote:


Channel: 1
Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166
Serial: W1F1YZYN
...
Current Pending Sector Count: 1176

The disk swap isn't the problem.  The Seagate disk is failing (1176 bad sectors so far).

 

So 

  • make a backup right away
  • replace the Seagate DM drive
  • Do a factory reset with the two new drives
  • restore data from the backup.

 

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