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Hard Drive Change Issues

Laks86
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Hard Drive Change Issues

Hi Guys,

 

I recently replaced my 12tb Hard drive which was faulty with a 10tb drive and when I format it it does nothing.

 

Where am i going wrong?

 

It is still showing up as Data Downgraded 😞

 

 

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Laks86
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StephenB
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@Laks86 wrote:

 

I recently replaced my 12tb Hard drive which was faulty with a 10tb drive and when I format it it does nothing.

 

Where am i going wrong?

 


You are going wrong by trying to use a 10 TB drive instead of a 12 TB drive.  To restore the volume to a redundant/healthy status you need to replace the 12 TB drive with another 12 TB model.  

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Laks86
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@StephenB wrote:

@Laks86 wrote:

 

I recently replaced my 12tb Hard drive which was faulty with a 10tb drive and when I format it it does nothing.

 

Where am i going wrong?

 


You are going wrong by trying to use a 10 TB drive instead of a 12 TB drive.  To restore the volume to a redundant/healthy status you need to replace the 12 TB drive with another 12 TB model.  


I thought so. Can I replace the other 12TB with a 10TB so it starts working as normal or would I need to format the whole NAS?

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StephenB
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@Laks86 wrote:

Can I replace the other 12TB with a 10TB so it starts working as normal or would I need to format the whole NAS?


Replacing the remaining drive won't help - that will just cause the volume to fail completely.

Is this a new setup with new drives? If it is, then you could just wait for a replacement 12 TB. 

 

You could also do a factory reset/reformat with all the existing drives in place.  You'll waste 2 TB of the 12 TB drive (and lose 2 TB of volume space), but you could regain that later by upgrading the 10 TB drive to 12.  If you have another 10 TB drive, you could also alternatively do a factory reset with 2x3TB+2x10TB.  Both would give you the same size volume - 16 TB (~14.5 TiB) instead of the 18 TB (~16.3 TiB) volume you have now).

 

 

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