I have an old HS-DHTGL box that originally came with four 250GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration. One of the drives failed a few years ago and I replaced it with a 500GB. The array rebuilt fine and has continued working fine since then.
I plan to give the box to my dad for xmas so I wanted to wipe the array and start fresh. My plan was to simply delete and recreate the RAID 5 array. I went into the web controls and deleted the array without any problem. But when I try to recreate the array, I get an E13 failure seconds after the build starts.
Things I've tried:
- Format and Check individual disks - They all check out ok.
- Create a RAID 5 array - E13 failure.
- Create a RAID 10 array - E13 failure.
- Create a RAID 1 array - Fails when pairing a 250&500, works when pairing two 250s.
Questions:
- Should I be able to create a new array with a mis-matched disk? Is this the only thing that's blocking me?
- Is there a way to force the box to believe the 500GB drive is really just 250GB?
Thanks,
Terry
RESOLVED --
I did manage to locate a set of 4 matched size disks (mixed vendors and versions). The critical thing appears to be the size. Once I had all four matching disks in place, the box was happy to create a RAID5 array and is now working on the full array check.
Terry