Replacement Drive listed as Removed

[tcox8]

Hello. I had a drive go out in my 12 TB Terastation (TS-RVHL7D0). I placed in a new hard drive but it stays listed as Removed in the web portal. I then attempted to delete the array as I was planning on moving from Raid 0 to Raid 1 but now I have Disk 1 listed as "Array 1", Disk 2 listed as "Removed", and Disk 3 and 4 are listed as "Normal(RMM available).

Can anyone provide some help?

Thanks!

[tcox8]

Shutting it down and unplugging it allowed me to now see Disk 1 in an array and to delete it. It is now listed as "Normal". Drive 2 is still listed as "Removed".

[joma90]

If anything i say do forceupdate with noformatting set to 0 so it will format all the disk and everything and take you back to square one. It actually might put the unit in a Raid 5 as well.I believe that is the default for this unit

[tcox8]

I looked through the documentation but could not find where or how to do a "forceupdate". Can you elaborate?

On a separate note... I think the whole unit is dying. Drive 4 tests out as a good drive and even lights up with green but will not change the status from "Removed" (same as drive 2). I did do a factory restore but that did not change anything.

[joma90]

go to http://m1econsulting.com/knowledge-base/force-update-buffalo-linkstation-nas/

follow guide for newer models

[tcox8]

Thanks for the link.

During the format, on the monitor (hooked up to the NAS) it displays a message asking to proceed by entering a "y" or "n". I attempted to proceed with yes but it failed to format. Tried again with "n" but it failed as well. I then tried to leave it be while the progress bar on the networked laptop continued to count up. Eventually it failed as well.

I think I have some bad drives. Kind of funny though that 2 drives failed at the exact same time.

[joma90]

Its not really weird for 2 drives to fail in all honesty. Where i work we have some raids setup with 50 drives and see 10 fail plenty of times. Even with a 4 drive setup We see them all failed plenty of times before as well. Mostly seagate drives fail is groups vs WD. We dont use green drive or eco drives so maybe it might be different. But the eco drives like wd green fail to often for us to purchase.