Terastation Live Disc LED's flashing and disc access noise all the time, non stop

[Ozzie]

   

Hello all,

 

I have a Terastation Live HS-DH2.0TG1/R5 which is configured for RAID5. It is 78% full with mostly large files like movies, music and pictures. The last few weeks I have noticed that the disc LED's are constantly flashing at the same time, all on - all off, fairly rapidly. This seems to have started about 2-3 weeks ago after I added a couple of movies and deleted a couple of other movies. Usually after making any changes to the files the LED's will flash randomly or in sync for a day or so. But this time it has been non-stop for weeks. I have shut it down twice, once for an hour or so but the activity continues.

 

Accessing files seems slower, and playing movies on the LinkTheater (LT-H90LAN) seem slower and sometimes will stall or skip, but most of the time it plays ok, just access is slower.

 

This morning I dis-abled pcast but no change in the LED's or access noise from the harddrives.

 

Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.

[Marcel]

   Need to know a few things in order to help you. First off what color are the lights. And secondly are there any slight pauses in the flashes.

[Ozzie]

   

4 Green LED's.

No, I can't say I have seen any slight pauses. The flashing and the hd noise seem to stay pretty consistent.

 

[PCPiranha]

It seems to have something to do with the media server's automatic updates.  Try reflashing the database from Pcast section of the database.

[Ozzie]

   

I re-freshed then flashed the database this morning. The 4 green disc LED's are not flashing as much and randomly only 3 LED's will flash at the same rate leaving a random LED off. When 1 of the disc LED's is off you can hear the hd access noise. I will check it again tonight and in the morning.

Can I ask what it is doing and why is the access so often when pcast is enabled?

 

Thanks,

[PCPiranha]

The media server indexes the media on the drive for its database. When automatic update is enabled, it will index the media fairly constantly

[tanjl]

   

Hi,

 

Is there any message in the web console page saying something abt "Resyncing raid array?

 

These happens only when the terastation is resyncing raid array or you may have to disable a function in the PCast page.