psionguy Posted July 9, 2019 Share #1 Posted July 9, 2019 My HP server gen 8 runing XPEnology DSM6.1.5 has been running well for the past 2 years, but now have an issue with the loss of my biggest drive 4tb due to bad sector issue. Yes I have lost some data which I can live with. All drives are in raid 1 which is OK for me. I have removed the bad drive and replaced it with a spare 500gb drive until I get a new 4tb drive, the drive has been formatted and appears in storage manager / HDD and shows it is working ok but has not initialized next to it and does not appear in storage manager / volume. I am surprised that I am having this issue when I had no problem setting up the system a few years back, can anyone help, and point me where I am going wrong. Any suggestions would be very welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyride Posted July 9, 2019 Share #2 Posted July 9, 2019 (edited) Not initialized just means that the drive is foreign to DSM and the DSM partition structure has not been built yet. As soon as you add to, or create an array using the drive, it will be initialized automatically. A drive will not automatically be joined to the volume - you must initiate it with a Repair operation. However, you cannot replace a 4TB drive with a 500GB drive and restore redundancy. You can only replace a drive with another one equal or larger in capacity. Because of this, DSM is not offering you the option to Repair the array. Edited July 9, 2019 by flyride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psionguy Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted July 11, 2019 Thank you for this information, I now see where I was goin wrong. A new 4tb drive is on order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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