Hard drive replacement

[alhandyman]

   

Hi all..Firstly I have looked through forum for a solution with out luck.

I have acquired a TS-TGLB15 Terastation Pro.

I installed 4 500gb drives from my dead Windows Home Server box.

 

All is well and running nicely for our family.

I have it set up as Raid 5 and have purchased a spare 500gb for the inevitable death of one of the drives.

 

Is it simply a matter of replacing a faulty drive and the machine takes care of the rest or is it not that easy.

I downloaded the manual and it just shows how to physically replace a drive without mentioning anything about configuring.

 

Regards from Australia

Allan

[AngelsAbys]

It will be hit or miss, in most cases the machine should rebuild automatically, but if that does not occur, you will need to log into the web interface and under the disk management there will be an option to reconstruct the raid array without the need to rebuild it resulting in the loss of data.

[JoshC]

That unit you will have to restructre the RAID manually in the UI.  Disk management>Raid Setup>RAID Array1.  At the bottom of that page you will see the disk structure you will need to check the box for the HD that you have replaced, then click the button restrucre RAID.  There will be no data loss and it should take at most 10-20min.  Sometimes the unit will go through a RAID check or a Disk Check which will take longer.  Usually anywhere from 24-72hrs.  I would recommend using a USB external to back up your data.