HDD Replaced - RAID won't rebuild

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HDD Replaced - RAID won't rebuild

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Hi,

TS-431XU-RP / 4 x 4TB Drives / RAID 5

I had a drive in the RAID array fail and I replaced it with the same make and model however the array won't rebuild and is still sat in a degraded state.

The system see's the drive and reports it as OK but when I look at my storage pool management, the status shows "not member" but this contradicts what i am seeing in the Disks section which clearly picks the disk up as being part of RAID GROUP 1.

Any tips? I have spoken to support but we didn't get very far, the fix they suggested was to power down, remove all drives, refit and power back up - did this and it made no difference at all.

Not quite as the manual describes where it should just rebuild itself!
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did you swap it hot?
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dolbyman wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:46 pm did you swap it hot?
Yes, hot swap exactly as described in the manual.
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Incase anyone searches and comes across this, couldn't find any logical reason why this wouldn't work, neither the GUI or through SSH / PuTTy could I get the new drive to be recognised or activated.

Cut my losses and purchased a second drive, popped it in and the RAID rebuild started immediately so can only assume the first drive I purchased was faulty.
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what hdds are you using?
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Moogle Stiltzkin wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2019 5:35 pm what hdds are you using?
Seagate Iron Wolf 4TB, replacement for the drive(s) that originally shipped with the device and still valid on the compatibility list.
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https://www.qnap.com/en-in/how-to/knowl ... ould-i-do/
In some cases the rebuild of the RAID might not start automatically. If you encounter this you may set the new drive as a spare disk first. The rebuild will start immediately after this is done.

To set the new drive as a spare disk, please follow the steps below:

Log in to your NAS via web browser
Open Storage & Snapshots
Go to Storage > Storage/Snapshots
Select your Storage Pool or Static Volume and click on the “Manage” button
Select the degraded RAID group section and click “Manage” and then “Configure Spare Disk”.
Select the new drive and click Apply
Your RAID will now start rebuilding and normal operation will be resumed after it’s completed.
Failing this, Raise a ticket with QNAP to investigate.
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Toxic17 wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2019 6:49 pm https://www.qnap.com/en-in/how-to/knowl ... ould-i-do/
In some cases the rebuild of the RAID might not start automatically. If you encounter this you may set the new drive as a spare disk first. The rebuild will start immediately after this is done.

To set the new drive as a spare disk, please follow the steps below:

Log in to your NAS via web browser
Open Storage & Snapshots
Go to Storage > Storage/Snapshots
Select your Storage Pool or Static Volume and click on the “Manage” button
Select the degraded RAID group section and click “Manage” and then “Configure Spare Disk”.
Select the new drive and click Apply
Your RAID will now start rebuilding and normal operation will be resumed after it’s completed.
Failing this, Raise a ticket with QNAP to investigate.
Yep, tried that, didn't work and raised a ticket with QNAP two weeks ago. Very unimpressed with the support overall but I suppose that's the trade off when you're buying a cheap device.
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So could you add the drive as a spare and not rebuild? or would it not let you add the drive?

most of my tickets are answered quite quickly, though some I have had to chase up in the past or I raise a new ticket.
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The drive was physically swapped, the system the detected the drive and disks info showed it as a member of the RAID group therefore the option to add as spare was not available.
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Checking the RAID array details, the status was shown as Not member, directly contradicting the previous screen.
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All very odd but I replaced the replacement drive with another new one and the system is now behaving as I expected (currently around the 30% mark in rebuilding the array).
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I have exactly the same issue. Bought already two new identical disk as the one that was corrupted, but still the same issue.

The new swapped disk has the status no member.....

Please help because the volume is in degraded mode and another disks of the raid set is having issue too allready

I'm using a TS-453A, RAID5 of 4 disks in 1 volume
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raid5 with 2 problematic drives will not rebuild
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I got the same issue: drive no 3 was reported as faulty, did a hot swap and the rebuild process initiated. Then back to degraded. Swapped the new drive for another new drive and the rebuild process started. Gave me an estimate of 34 h to completion. But 30 min late back to “degraded”. Clearly not a hdd issue. Defect NAS or firmware? I did an upgrade just before the error was reported.
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Re: HDD Replaced - RAID won't rebuild

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You might be suffering from backplane issues - open a support ticket with QNAP and/or have a look in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=134212.
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Re: HDD Replaced - RAID won't rebuild

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bgames wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:32 pm same issue replacement of hdd
What exactly is your issue? Because so far, there have been three posts in this particular thread with slightly different issues around rebuilds.
TVS-872XT-i5-16GB with 6*ST12000VNZ008 in RAID 6.
Backed up to a stack of a half dozen 'cold' external 12TB and 8TB HDDs - please back up your data, RAID is not the same as a backup!

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All protected by an APC SMT750VA UPS - protect your NAS from bad power!
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