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Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

October 16th, 2012, 3:06

Hello, i am posting this question just to be sure.
i have Seagate 440/420 raid10 and one of the 4 drives is off.
i read that i just have to put a similar empty drive (seagate 1Tb) (formatted?)
and the 2nd drive will start copy files (mirror) to the new drive.

are these info correct or i have to beware of anything?
thank you

Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

October 16th, 2012, 4:56

I guess the one who might Answer you here is Dr.Kiev (PM)

good luck


btw, i have 2 of those NAS - good choice

Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

October 16th, 2012, 5:10

athlesi7 wrote:H
i have Seagate 440/420 raid10 and one of the 4 drives is off.


In such case your NAS should be working still. If not , the problem can be elsewhere , and that step you gonna do can be dangerouse.
For example, some drive wasn't working period of time in the past , but NAS was working fine , now you have another "offlined" drive, and if you start HW rebuilding process you can lose all fresh data.
I would suggest you to recreate virtual array ( without any writes) or clone all drives before rebuilding, or ask for professional help .

Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

October 16th, 2012, 6:01

thanks for the tip.
The drive works perfectly with 3 drives.
i only want to be sure that pluging a new drive won't cause any further problems

Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

October 16th, 2012, 6:16

athlesi7 wrote:thanks for the tip.
The drive works perfectly with 3 drives.
i only want to be sure that pluging a new drive won't cause any further problems


Will NOT - don`t worry - i tried it many times here :wink:

always update the NAS FW - for performance issues

good luck

Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

October 16th, 2012, 6:26

Forgot to mention, adding new hdd to the NAS will take some time preparing it depends on size
mine adding new 3TB took like 15min. and after that was visible in GUI

you can monitor the status in LED

Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

October 16th, 2012, 6:35

At the NAS there the 2,3,4 drives working fine and are plugged in. as you can see at the screenshot there is a failure at the volume. i see the files on the nework. i am trying to access without any success. i changed the pass on the admin but still nothing.
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Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

October 16th, 2012, 6:41

The drive works perfectly with 3 drives.
i only want to be sure that pluging a new drive won't cause any further problems



as you can see at the screenshot there is a failure at the volume


Now, i See Diff. Tone here based on the facts you told from the beginning
you are changing subjects

get back to Dr.Kiev if you wanted your data back.

good luck

Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

December 11th, 2013, 5:59

einstein9 wrote:
The drive works perfectly with 3 drives.
i only want to be sure that pluging a new drive won't cause any further problems



as you can see at the screenshot there is a failure at the volume


get back to Dr.Kiev if you wanted your data back.

good luck


good suggestions :)

Re: Seagate blackarmor 440/420 NAS

December 13th, 2013, 17:03

i have black armor 110 that stopped responding for some reason , disassembeled the unit ,connected the hdd to a pc , deleted all partitons on it , reconnected the hdd to the NAS unit and waited till the NAS unit rewrite the required partitions and O.S.

web interface working again , for just 12 days , then the same problem again ...

i have three units acting the same .. any ideas?

thanks
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