readyNas Pro Business to Readynas 316 disk migration problem #26124919
Hi All
My readynas pro died at the weekend. I shut it down whilst I upgraded my router then when I went to turn it back on it was just dead. No response to power button or anything.
I tested the PSU thinking that was what had gone but seems that it was something else as the PSU checked out ok.
So reading on here that I could boot a 316 into OS4 i bought a diskless one that arrived today.
Booted it using a spare disk
Upgraded firmware to latest one
shut it down
removed spare disk
inserted old disks into 316
booted 316 into OS4
Only problem is I can't access the volume.
It seems that Disk 4 is dead, looking at the logs it seems it has been going for ages but for some reason the Pro stopped emailing to tell me and I hadn't checked. Not sure why this means I can't access the volume as it was in XRAID so has a 1 drive fault tolerance.
I've logged a call with support and they are going to look into it for me, but I was wondering if I can just replace disk 4 with a new one and let it rebuild itself or if as it is running os4 on os6 hardware if that won't work.
Re: readyNas Pro Business to Readynas 316 disk migration problem
Looking at the logs, the reallocated sector count for one disk had a huge jump from 0 to 910 back in November 2014. At that point I would have considered the disk needed replacing. Too late for that now.
For another disk there was an alert back in March 2015 that would have given serious cause for concern about that one too.
If you had logged into Frontview you would have seen some alerts regardless of the success/failure in sending email alerts.
It is advisable to backup your data regularly as problems with multiple disks, along with other problems such as fire, flood, theft, accidental file deletion etc. can lead to data loss.
