RAID1 Single Disk (Disk 2 disappears)

[drdavepier]

Someone anyone. Can you help?

[drdavepier]

update:

I reflashed the stora with single drive in. This was not as easy as it sounds as stora refused to allow me to make the same user accounts - i had to make a new account and then swap to the old account through preferences - long story short I now have my data back and 1 working drive.

I popped the second drive in. Stora asked me how I wanted it configured. I did raid 1 and stora started copying content. By the time I went to bed the web UI said 57% complete and both hdd green lights blinking

woke up this morning and web UI says that I have a single disk in Raid (stora was on the whole time so no restart). Restarted to see if this would fix it but no joy!!!

I really am starting to get fed up with this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[slattoz]

Me too.... not much good having a mirror that doesn't work!

Disk two always disappears - I got an email first time from the stora but since then I've had 3 disappearings resulting in three separate rebuilds of the mirror (which take 10hrs) and I haven't been notified at all. Worrying that my data isn't safe.

Running full diagnostics on the disk 2 at the moment but after reading this thread don't hold hope for a disk problem.

If this doesn't fix it I'll just sell the silly thing on ebay and get another brand.

[bastialex0825]

Are you guys running on the latest 2.6 firmware?

[slattoz]

I wasn't but have just upgraded - will see if that solves teh problem and report back in a few days.

[drdavepier]

Yes actually upgrading to 2.6 seemed to be the thing that caused the problem. I have reflashed but there does not seem to be an option to roll back

[slattoz]

2.6 hasn't solved anything for me. Mirror was rebuilt overnight and this morning there is only one disk showing.

Normally at this point a restart will show the second disk and give me the option to reconfigure it into a RAID.

Over it.... Netgear haven't had much to say on this one and the thread is quite old.

Time to ebay it.

[drdavepier]

I am thinking mine might have to go in the bin too. I have emailed netgear support multiple times and have given up. This forum was my last hope and so far no solution.

[mrsqueezy]

After suffering the drive activity issue, I had a couples of weeks of smooth running after updating to 2.6. The power up and down feature caused me a few issues (orange lights etc) so I disabled that.

The stora has been on since then (around 2 days). This morning I received an email telling me their had been an error. Unfortunately now my second raid 1 drive has disappeared from disk management.

The stora appears to be still functioning - however I would prefer to have the security of a full Raid 1...

I have 2 x 2TB Samsung F4 - Brand new and have the new firmware so its unlikely to be a drive issue.

I love the stora when it works - but it has caused me nothing but trouble. I've only had it since october...

Mr Squeezy

[lemans]

Originally Posted by drdavepier

hi lemans, any luck with swapping the drives?

Not yet. I can't keep two drives working long enough to complete a swap. Have to keep rebuilding the raid to get the data on the second disk. I keep the Stora switched off when not backing up. but it still sometimes loses the second disk when booting up. As I type this I am waiting (5 hours) for the rebuild. Only 4.5 hours to go!