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New HDDs failing in Pro 2
Hello, I've been running a ReadyNAS Pro 2 with two 2TB WD red drives. I primarily use it as a backup and media server. I recently bought two 3TB drives (also red) to expand. Along the way I did something that in hindsight was probably not you bright, and likely due to the fact that I don't fully understand how the NAS works! Here's what I did (for this scenario 3A and 2B refer to the original drives, 3A and 3B to the new drives) 1. In an effort to back up the NAS before swapping drives, I took one of the new drives (3A) and hooked it as an external USB drive. The original plan was to then put drive 3B in the NAS (replacing 2B), and once confirmed synced with 2A, I would reformat 3A and replace 2A with it. 2. The first problem was that as an external drive, 3A only showed as 764GB. I removed it from its enclosure and put it as a secondary internal drive, reformatted it and verified 3TB of space. Then I ran a backup from the NAS to the now internal drive (3A). This ran well (albeit slowly) with the exception of a bunch of Plex files which did not copy, possibly because of file name length. 3. I removed 2B and replaced it with 3B and the syncing started. After it finished everything looked good, with 2A and 3B in the NAS. 4. I then replaced 2A with 3A (did not reformat first) with the thought that if I put in a disk with data already on it either it would just wipe it before syncing or at least ask if I wanted to reformat. However, this did not happen. Instead I got a message that "data volume will be rebuilt with volume 2," which I thought strange because volume 1 was already present and complete. I assumed that would be used as the basis for adding additional drives, not the other way around. Although perhaps it's just a poorly worded or translated easy of saying that disk 1 is the source to rebuild disk 2. 5. After some time I got a message that disk 2 was dead. Strange because it was new, and had no errors via SMART+. I removed that disk and the error message persisted even after rebooting. Yellow light on Raidar, flashing green light on the NAS. 6. Swapping the position of the drives did not help. May have made it worse. At this point I'm at a loss. My hope is that I can start over, but before doing so I want to make sure I won't ruin the original disks (2A, 2B). Can I just put back in the original disks and try and reformat the new ones? Do I have to reset the NAS prior to doing this? How can I reformat the new drives to try again? Thanks to anyone making it through my post, and I hope it was clear enough to get some help.Solved4.3KViews0likes36Comments