Murphy has come and gone. 8^/
For some reason the rebuild didn't go as planned.
The NAS is in a D-Link enclosure and it was supposed to automatically
rebuild the new drive as part of the existing Raid 1 when I installed it
and powered on.
Instead, the existing disk thinks it's a Raid 1 and the new disk thinks
it's a separate JBOD volume.
Everything of importance on this NAS is backed up to multiple other
drives, but I'm testing how well Xcopy works to transfer all of the
files from Volume 1 to Volume 2 before I go out to buy another external
drive to back it all up on again.
Once I'm sure I've got suspenders (braces - get your mind out of the
gutter Bob & Cotty) and a belt in place, I'll try again to rebuild the
NAS as a single Raid 1 volume.
On 6/26/2015 7:46 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote:
I did do a backup of course! It's just something I do so completely
forgot to mention it...
On 26 June 2015 at 07:41, Toine <to...@repiuk.nl> wrote:
I would make a backup copy to an external drive or PC first, minimal
the critical files like photo's. Remember Murhpy's law: Anything that
can go wrong, will go wrong
On 26 June 2015 at 04:19, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Question for the network admin gurus here on the list.
I have a NAS box with two Seagate ST31500341 1.5TB SATA drives in a
Raid-1 (Mirror) configuration. One of the drives failed.
The best value replacement I found is a 2TB Seagate NAS HDD (hard-drive
specifically manufactured for NAS).
I purchased two identical 2TB drives. The two NAS drives cost less than
the cost of a single *refurbished* Seagate ST31500341 1.5TB SATA drive
(no longer available new & the price point for new 1.5TB drives was even
higher).
The RAID will finish rebuilding in about 4 hours, but if I understand
how these things work, I will only be able to use 1.5TB of the 2TB drive.
Should I go ahead and swap out the other 1.5TB drive & rebuild the RAID
a second time?
If I do so, will I get full use of the 2TB drives or are they going to be
limited by the original 1.5TB RAID Mirror size?
I've been using PCs & building my own since 1980. I've had some external
USB drives that wouldn't work after sitting for a while & I've had
internal drives that failed after sitting on a shelf, but this is the
first hard-drive I've had fail in use.
(Not including when I worked at the IBM PC Company integrated software
sub-systems lab & the programmers abused the shit out of the hardware. I
was always replacing drives, motherboards, adapter cards, etc that they'd
burned up hot swapping stuff that wasn't intended to be hot swapped. But
that's another story.)
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