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X-Raid Verticle Expansion Incomplete
Hello, I have recently attempted a Verticle Expansion of our array from X-Raid (6) 12X3TB by replacing with 4X6TB drives. I replaced one drive at a time allowing amply time to resync, verifying online in the logs for each. On the 4th drive, upon completion, I had expected the volume to expand; however, the following resulted "Remove inactive volumes to use the disk" Several reboots later and firmware update i am not much farther ahead. Is this normal and what have others done in the community to deal with this? Firmware 6.9.3 Regards, Dave
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dfrederiksen
Apr 17, 2018 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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Understanding metadata tiers and x-raid for RN 422 with EDA-500
I am relatively new to the world of NAS. I have a 2 bay RN 422 with an EDA-500 connected via e-sata. The EDA-500 is primarily used to make my large library of movies available to my family. I would like to set up the EDA-500 as one x-raid volume, with two 8 TB WD Red Hdd's. My question: Is there any benefit to adding one or two SSD's to the EDA-500 in an attempt to create a metadata tier to improve performance? Thank you in advance for considering this question.
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Maxter
Jan 29, 2018 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #1,2,3.
My first attemt looks to have failed. Sorry if this is a repeat. My network started to have files access issues and after rebooting everything but the NAS i had nothing left but now I have lost my X-RAID volume and its shares. I have now rebooted and power cycled a number of time and still no luck. I does look like I have a drive going bad (disk2) but it does look to be operational still so that does not explain my issue. Looks like other before me have had the same problem but they do not seem to have a viable resotution for me. Running 6.9.1 X-RAID with 3x 4TB drives Any thoughts?
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Gwilli14
Jan 08, 2018 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNAS Hardware Performance
Hello, Currently have a ReadyNAS 4 bay model 314 is has 2 Western Digital 4T drives and 2 Western Digital 6T drives installed I have been trying to increase the perfromance of this device i.e ready/write speed. The devices are connected via a ISP modem Router rates at 1gigbit ethernet my issue recently has been with writing and deleting from this device has been slow. The network computers are iMac's running OSX 10.12.6 connected via gigabit ethernet. I have traced all possible avenues of where the speed can been effected the buiding's wired with Cat5e ethernet good cable. Also I notice that the device when booting slows when it reaches about 80% and seems to be working hard accessing the drives during boot with nothing to account for this. So I decided to wipe the drives and reinstall factory settings that strips the disks using X-RAiD. Duing the intiall factory reset the device decided to run Resyncing since their is no data on the drives I was wondering why. I also notice a chart in the Volume's menu under setting then select RAID it shows a triangle chart that on each point of the chart indicating three states of the Raid Volume. One state shows Performance in yellow and with a completion circle indicating decreased I assume. I was wondering if my having 2 different Harddrive sizes installed caused degredation of the Volume perfromance and this chart is show that. Would their be any advantage to change the drives to all the same size.
utelme
Oct 23, 2017 Place New ReadyNAS Users & General Discussion
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How to calculate maximum available volume capacity with X-RAID and various HDDs?
We bought our first RN104 a couple of years ago with two 3 (2,7) TB disks in RAID 1 mode. After a while we added two 4 (3,6) TB disks and continued using RAID 1, giving us a total capacity (data + snapshots + free space) as expected of 6,3 TB. Last year we bought a second RN104 with two 4 (3,6) TB disks, using X-RAID in RAID5 mode by default, and got a total capacity of 3,6 TB. Now after adding two 8 (7,3) TB disks, we have 14,95 TB total capacity, smothelessly configured by automatic. This is perfect, isn't it? :smileyvery-happy: As we need storage more than speed, a greater capacity could not be achieved with security for a single disk failure, I guess. The reason why I am writing here is because the FAQ und online docs are in many parts confusing, as options have changed with firmware upgrades and some docs refer to old versions… so there were Flex-RAID, X-RAID, X-RAID II, but RN104 with latest firmware 6.6.0 only has one button: X-RAID on or off. X-RAID seems to be the perfect choice for most scenarios though. But I'm not sure whether it will make sense to reconfigure the first RN104 to X-RAID. I guess we could gain only 1 TB in capacity, because it will use the 4 TB disks for data (3,6*2=7,2) and both 3 TB disks for parity, actually wasting 2 TB, correct? Any ideas how to get the maximum of our HDDs in two ReadyNAS 104?
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AGSowjet
Oct 21, 2016 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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Problem umount volume after one disk failure on RNDU2000 #27445297
Hello Netgear Community!!! First, I apologize for my english (I'm french). I've got a problem on my ReadyNAS Ultra 2 (2 * 2 terabyte) sync on X-RAID to mirroring my datas between my 2 HDD. A few days ago, one HDD has failed. Later, unable to connect to nas shares. I immediatly look at the logs and I see : "The paths for the shares listed below could not be found. Typically, this occurs when the readyNAS is unable to access the data volume. .....<list of the shares>....". I then go in the volume management menu and I see an other pop-up error who accurate no volume is mounted. I decide to connect through SSH. When I list disk partitions (fdisk -l), I note that the partition that contains the datas is not present. I've tried to mount many partitions that I see into /dev without success. My questions are : - Is there someone who has had this problem or almost the same ? - How to solve it ? - Is it possible to read X-RAID disk on ubuntu system, GParted or other linux distribution ? I think it's a firmware problem when the nas mounting volumes, or a security of its system (X-RAID) that stop the mounting of volumes as the failed HDD has not be changed. My readynas contains 12 years of family pics, personal documents and working files, so I will be disappointed to have lost everything. Thank's a lot If you have the solution !!! By
cedreek
Sep 22, 2016 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNasUltra 4 dead #26795494
One of the disk was showing increasing Smart errors, so I ordered a replacement disk (ST3000VN000) -to replace the failing disk. No big deal I thought. I had assumed that the failing disk was disk4 - a 3Tb Seagate disk I'd ad some smart errors on before - as I didn't read the emails closely enough. When I was getting an email every few minutes, I shut down the NAS to wait for the replacement disk. It arrived, and I replaced disk 4 with the new disk, and booted up. The system stayed at booting for some time - whilst I now read the message which made it clear that the failing disk was Disk 1. I powered down the NAS. I now replaced the original disk 4 - a ST33000650NS and rebooted. This appeared to work, and the Nas came up and the SMART error messages flooded in. I decided to hotswop the failing disk, Disk 1 (ST2000VN000-1H3164). Then it all started to go wrong..... I get the messages in the following order: Disk removal detected - Disk1 Raid event detected - Data volume will be rebuilt with disk 4 New disk detected Disk 1 Raid event detected - Data volume will be rebuilt with disk 1 Then nothing happened - no raid sync on the volume, and most of my files dissapeared. I downloaded the logs using frontview, and then looked at the volume status - which showed that the X-raid was dead, and that I had two spare disks. That was midnight, so I left the NAS until this morning. (No sleep - a lot isn't backed up.....) This morning the NAS appeared to have dies - though I could look at front view, I couldn't refresh it - and the NAS front panel couldn't be brought to life. I've now powered it down and asking for help. What's the next step? I wonder if I can replace the faiing Disk1 back in order to rebuild the raid array, and when that's done replace it, taking any data hit as getting the Raid array back is the priority.
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garethjjones
Apr 29, 2016 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNas 104 maximum expansion
Hi evryone, today is a second day with my ReadyNas 104 and I'm very satisfied of this product ! I have one question on the maximum volume capacity to 16TB with the new firmware. The best solution with x-raid is 2x 5TB and 2x 6TB hard drive? so as have 15TB? Now my ReadyNas has 2x 3TB WD RED and I want considering the best volume upgrade by future. Thanks, Giusepe
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giuseppeT
Oct 13, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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3220 Horizontal Upgrade Planned
Just wanted to make sure I'm reading the manual correctly. We launced a 3220 box wtih 8 out of 12 drives populated, each drive is a 4TB red and the box has had some traffic with minor file loading and 1 LUN for a domain backup. We're going to migrate the box to 12 drives but if I'm reading the manual correctly our Raid-6 configuration will need to be migrated to an X-Raid config before we can add drives... correct? Is there an actual procedure doc that outlines the correct way to add drives? Power on, Power Off? Raid-6 to X-Raid before or after... looking for guideance. 3220 is at release 6.2.4 (Current release) Thanks, Miguel
radioguru6613
Sep 03, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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