OK, i will try to make this as short and concise as possible while giving the most information possible.
March 13th i unplug my 343 which at the time had been working almost flawlessly for the previous 2+ years. Only problem i would have from time to time is lockup on startup, but a quick power cycle fixed that.
Yesterday i plug everything back in, and in this order, i do the following.
1. Plug unit in, looks like system hangs at booting screen but eventually boots. I use search utility to locate on network as the IP address previously assigned does not coincide with new network configuration. I change the IP through the utility and the device is then found. The unit currently and from day 1 has had 2x750GB Seagate Cuda 7200 series drives in Raid1.
2. After changing IP address i login via web and immediately update firmware 1.4. I guess i should have checked everything before... but i didn't. After update installs and reboots, i then have access again. I now log in. NOW my system is telling me Volume_1 is degraded, but i can't tell which drive it is as both are lit on the LED screen and both show up under drives as normal status in the web interface.
3. Install 2 new Seagate 2TB Green 5900 drives(unformatted or partitioned) and it asks what i want to do. I create a new JBOD from the 2 drives and choose Ext3 and all seems fine. It creates the JBOD and then goes to format. Format COMPLETES and then shows me that it has failed. It went all the way to 99%, then i assume completed to 100% when it moved to the next screen and said it failed. I then removed the 2 new drives and rebooted the system.
4. After still having the degraded volume message come up i decide to move off as mush valuable data to alternate sources, but now when i boot up the system it asks me what i want to configure my "newly" installed SINGLE hard drive which is the old 750GB which formed one part of my Raid1 set. I can only assume that since this drive labeled as Drive 1 is what shows up, that the drive in bay 2 is the faulty one. However, when i go to the disk status page the still both show up, except that drive 1 is hotter than drive 2, which leads me to believe that drive 2 is not running even though it is showing up.
5... I have not done anything yet, this is where i would like some advice. Here are some things i have thought about doing.
Option 1: Remove both drives from my raid set and move them around in different bays to see if the "dead" one is recognized somewhere else and see if i can get it to reconfigure a new Raid set and wipe it clean, hopefully fixing any issues it may have or have developed. Is that works, hopefully i can get the 2 new drives installed and recognized again as well.
Option 2: Assume that the drive is bay 2 is dead and try to RMA it if it's still under warranty. Just use my 2 new drives as a Raid 1 set as i need at least 1 Mirrored setup for valuable data. Eventually replace the 750 with a rma unit and the move data around and reconfigure the Raid sets again.
Can anyone offer any advice based on the information i provided and the steps i have taken. I ideally would like to have the 2x750GB in a Raid1 set and the 2x2TB in a JBOD set for less valuable media files.
Thanks,
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