DNS 323 – Raid 1 Degraded
Hi,
i will describe a problem that i had with my DNS 323 storage. My storage is working as raid 1 – mirroring of two HD 500 Gbs.
Right. Two days ago i received an email from my storage saying this:
Right Hard Drive Has Failed Sincerely, Your DNS-323
Well, i opened the DNS 323 manager from the browser and i saw this page:
After read some posts about this issue and clicked in the button: Manually Rebuild Now. I was surprise about the time estimated: ~7800 minutes. It was not possible! You can do the calc, 7800 min / 60 = 130 hours / 24 = 5,42 days!!!! Persistent as i am, i waited for 16 hours! For my bad the time estimate still very high: ~6800 minutes.
At this moment i threw the towel in the floor. I turned off the storage, and started again to find a solution about it. I confess that is very simple. Ijust removed the HD with problem, check if had some problems with it: not had. I removed all partitions in the HD and put it back to the storage. The storage formated the HD and syncronized the data with the another HD. This spent ~90 minutes!
Here is my advice. Not click in the “manually rebuild now” button. Just remove the HD with problem, check if it have problems, remove all partitions and put it back to the storage. This is the more easy and correct procedure.
Good luck!
