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ReadyNas 316 drive swap failure
I had a drive fail this last week (dead as a doornail) for my RAID 5.1 configuration. All 6 bays are populated with 2TB WD red drives, and total used disk space was around 3 TB, so there was PLENTY of space left for handling the swap. I bought a new WD 2TB red HDD, powered down the RN, swapped the drives and turned it back on. It came up with a status saying that it was rebuilding the data (don't remember the exact words, sorry), and after about an hour, it started flashing "DEAD". I checked the RN admin web interface and it showed that all drives were red with an error at the top stating "Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #1,2,3,4,5,6". So this is fun. At this point, I'm wondering if there's a way to get my data back or if I'm just stuck having to rebuild everything... which completely nullifies the whole point of having a RAID 5.1...