Expanding disk group & disk crashed!

[md1032 0]

Greetings, i have 6 WD 3TB RED and i added 2 more to my system and when i was expanding the disk group it showed me that one of the new ones crashed

 

 

 

My version is DSM 5.2-5565

 

What should i do?

Can i stop the operation and check the crashed HDD to my desktop to check for bad sectors etc?

Should i allow it to end and then do the replacement with a new one?

If i leave it to expand the disk and one more crashes i will lose all my data (SHR2)?

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

[AllGamer 0]

hmm... Hybrid mode is messy.

 

with that many HDDs, I'd have gone RAID10, then it would have been safe to do a repair without worry of losing data.

 

is the Crashed disk, from the new ones that you added, or it is from the existing disk in the hybrid RAID ?

[md1032 0]

The crashed one is from the new ones.

 

The log wrote errors like that "SYSTEM: Write error at internal disk [4] sector 121006024." so i guess either the sata cable is bad (cause i used an old one) or the HDD has indeed bad sectors.

 

Now the expanding is at 50% with no other errors...

[AllGamer 0]

if it's from the new HDD, then it's safe to hit the Repair button.

 

alternatively, as you mentioned, just take it out, have it scanned on a Linux / Windows machine to see if it's an actual bad sector on the new HDD, then send it in for RMA if confirmed it's a bad drive.

[md1032 0]

I will hit the repair when the expanding is done (not its at 80%) and then i will take out the disk to check it at windows desktop with WD diagnostics.

 

Thankfully the shared folder of the xpenology is visible at my desktop so i can do a minor backup of some important stuff i have there.

[md1032 0]

So the expanding finished, the volume is of course downgraded.

I inserted the bad drive at my desktop and wd diagnostics found some bad sectors that repaired them...so what should i do next? Re-insert it to xpenology and repair the volume or replace it with a new one?

[AllGamer 0]

So the expanding finished, the volume is of course downgraded.

I inserted the bad drive at my desktop and wd diagnostics found some bad sectors that repaired them...so what should i do next? Re-insert it to xpenology and repair the volume or replace it with a new one?

 

Definitely replace it, since that is a permanent issue on that disk, it will reappear again if you keep it.

since you are still under warranty, might as well change it and get a new replacement.

[md1032 0]

Yes, it was a kinda "false alarm", i re-run the full scan of diagnostics and had disk failed error because of many bad sectors... so i will replace it with a new one (and its only 7 days old)!

[md1032 0]

So i inserted a new one and the repair finished just fine!

 

Now I can safely expand the allocate size of volume to max without losing data, right?

[AllGamer 0]

So i inserted a new one and the repair finished just fine!

 

Now I can safely expand the allocate size of volume to max without losing data, right?

 

yes, it's safe now