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Yes, I have read here in this forum to hot swap new drives. The process is 1 drive at a time waiting for the NAS to Sync the data then add the next and so on till finished. I also read that it take time which I have no problem with. I am just wanting to make sure that me doing this is going right. I hot-swaped drive one, I waited till the next day and check and it finished syncing data my NAS was displaying "Healthy" again instead of during syncing showed "Degraded" . I now hot-swaped drive 2 and do not see it saying syncing it is showing this
Thanks for All your help StephenB, I reached out to the person I purchased the Hard drives from and he is sending me 2 more Hard drive to replace these 2 that aren't working.
I purchased all 6 - Of my Drives used to up grade from 6 - 3TB to 6 - 6TB drives the first one installed without a problem. The guy I purchased them from had me wait till he formatted them. Should I try to reformat the drive again??
I purchased all 6 - Of my Drives used to up grade from 6 - 3TB to 6 - 6TB drives the first one installed without a problem. The guy I purchased them from had me wait till he formatted them. Should I try to reformat the drive again??
Actually you should unformat them (easiest to do with a Windows PC).
But if you can select the newly added drive in the NAS and format it from the web ui, then try that.
Okay I could have selected it and formatted but posted here first to make sure doing things right, but did take it back out and tried another one of the 6TB and it is syncing now will try to format that one after syncing is done will post to let you know what happens
Okay, that one synced and all next question I put disc number 5 Now. I had to tell it to format like I did for the other HDrive not it has been about 10 min and it is not syncing and the drive in the RAID does not have a green light it has this
See the space to the right is not lite up green. Any help is appreciated
Yes When I put it in it was showing like the first disk I asked you about so I was able to select it and told it to format then it just sat there for over 10 minutes, The light first turned green then not sure when but the next time I looked the light was not green anymore that is when I decided to post again for your help. Stupid me I put the old drive back in thinking it would be better, instead of having a degraded thought it would just be better but it is now syncing it back in to the RAID. I am assuming I will have to wait till it's finished before I can try the 6TB drives again?
I am assuming I will have to wait till it's finished before I can try the 6TB drives again?
I don't think you have to do that, but I think it would be best to wait for it. If the drive isn't healthy, then I'd suggest just pulling it. But this is just expansion, so there is no reason to think that the resync will fail.
Okay now I am confused I put the drive in the last spot do not know if that makes a difference but I waited for about 4 minutes then I checked on it and this is what I see should I be worried????? It shows no HardDrive but it says it is syncing????
I just checked this mourning and It is now showing the drive but is showing RED light and when I hover on it it say drive failed
So I will get with the person who I bought it from, I just put in the last drive and crossing my fingers it works and I only got one bad drive. I believe I got a good deal all drive say there where made in 2016 and one says 2019 and I payed $60 per drive. Hopefully he will replace with another one he seemed like a good guy.
Thanks for All your help StephenB, I reached out to the person I purchased the Hard drives from and he is sending me 2 more Hard drive to replace these 2 that aren't working.
