TS210 Raid 1 Disk Swap

[newscot]

I have a TS210 with 2 1TB HDDs.

Disk 2 has started to report errors and the array is now running in degraded mode.

I would like to swap out disk 2, but I am also considering taking off the Raid setting and using both drives as storage. Given this I have the following questions:

1) If I simply replace disk 2 with a new HDD, will the NAS restore the data the was on the old disk?
2) Is the data on disk 1 safe or do I need to backup/restore?
3) If I decide I want to ditch the Raid configuration, is that possible? simple? Could I simply turn off Raid and leave all the data currently on Disk 1 intact?

Thanks

Steve

[Don]

1 - yes, NAS will rebuild automatically.
2 - you should always have backups.
3 - you will need to rebuild from scratch and restore the data from backups. You cannot downgrade raid.


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[pwilson]

I have a TS210 with 2 1TB HDDs.

Disk 2 has started to report errors and the array is now running in degraded mode.

I would like to swap out disk 2, but I am also considering taking off the Raid setting and using both drives as storage. Given this I have the following questions:

1) If I simply replace disk 2 with a new HDD, will the NAS restore the data the was on the old disk?
2) Is the data on disk 1 safe or do I need to backup/restore?
3) If I decide I want to ditch the Raid configuration, is that possible? simple? Could I simply turn off Raid and leave all the data currently on Disk 1 intact?

Thanks

Steve

Why would you remove your RAID1 setup? It is the correct solution.
If you are running out of space, simply purchase a NAS with more drive bays, so you can switch to RAID5.

Don already answered your other questions.

[newscot]

Don, Patrick,

Thank you for your speedy response. A lot quicker than "official" channels.

I don't want to get rid of the RAID config but was hitherto unable to get confirmation of what I needed to do to replace the duff HDD.

Having found out it works exactly as I would have hoped it would, I will set to and install the new HDD.

As for backups, I do have backups but wondered if I would need to restore all the data after swapping the disk.

Thanks again.

[newscot]

As an aside, I ran the bad block scanner on Disk 2 and it told me there were 23 errors......it seems a bit harsh to have to replace a 2TB HDD for 23 bad blocks.

Is there no way to simply mark them as bad and avoid them?

Steve