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ReadyNAS 3138: very slow sync, and disk tray green fault lights stay on after adding two new drives.
Purchased ReadyNAS RN3138 (4-drive bay rackmount) in May; initial Netgear support just expired. Initially had installed two WD Gold 6TB drives with default X-RAID with no problems. Just added two W...
When you are adding drives, adding one while another is syncing is fine. It doesn't make things go any faster or slower, but it does eliminate the wait time if you aren't present to instert the second when the first one completes sync. I don't know why re-formatting the drives would make any difference when it comes to the LEDs., but a re-boot could, I suppose.
When a drive is syncing, the access blinking can be so fast that it appears solid. The Volumes page should indicate if any syncing is still ongoing. mdstat.log in the log .zip file will show you a bit more about the status (or issuing cat /proc/mdstat from SSH)..
Thanks for all the useful information. I've rebooted several times without any change in the two bright green lower LED's. The volumes page indicates a normal state, and the bar at the top about syncing in progress is long gone. Good to know that starting over with four freshly reformatted drives is not likely to help. Maybe I won't bother with that. I'll check the log you suggested to see what's there. Maybe all is well, but those two bright green lights just bug me.
Anyway, thanks for all the useful comments. I'll update the thread if I find out how to turn those LED's off.
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