I took the ix2 apart AGAIN, and removed the barely 3 year old Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 out of the device. The Green drives are quieter, a little slower, and use less power – great for this application. Later that afternoon I picked up a 500GB WD Caviar Green from BB for $56. ? Well, at least my email script still works. To prevent possible data loss, this issue should be repaired as soon as possible.Īwesome. Visit the Dashboard on the management interface for details. A drive may have either failed or been removed from your Iomega StorCenter device. The Iomega StorCenter device is degraded and data protection is at risk. The next morning I checked my email and received this from sohostoarge: When I returned, the missing drive was back online and was crisis averted? Nope.
Okay – time to get dinner and wait for this to finish. A few minutes later I ran the command and got something like 33.8% with 132 minutes remaining. At first I saw that the drive was rebuilding and was at 32.4% with 109 minutes remaining. Connect via SSH and run this command: cat /proc/mdstat You’ll get actual information about what’s going on. “You respond to a ping, but that’s it.” No web interface… Well, let’s see what’s really going on. What I next learned was that I have little patience for blinking lights. In order to see that it was a drive that had failed and not the board, I swapped the SATA cables for the two drives, tightened it all up and turned it back on. Once copied, I completely shutdown the Storcenter, opened it and checked the connections. I immediately made a backup to my workstation. I logged into my Iomega Storcenter ix2 and the dashboard told me the news: “A drive is missing from the device” This whole process was pretty simple and I’m impressed with Iomega for the drive and am feeling quite smug at the moment.I was copying pictures to my network drive and I noticed that it was responding slowly. I will amend this once the data rebuild is complete. Placed NAS back in its place in the “tech corner” of the house and turned it on.Īfter a lot of drive reading and writing it was ready for log in access and the control panel said it was rebuilding data protection. Slid the new HDD and casing into the NAS enclosure and replaced the screws in the bottom of the device. Unscrewed the old HDD from the plastic casing. Really impressed with how simple it was to replaced the drive.Īfter removing the two screws on the base of the device I removed the old disk 2.
I had planned for the whole operation to take an hour but in reality it took about 10 minutes and that was with me taking my time.
#Iomega storcenter ix2 replace both disks series
I ordered a Western Digital 1TB Red drive as the WD website said that it was a suitable HDD for the ix2 series of NAS. I currently have used about 0.5 TB on the current NAS and that is after two years of ownership so I shouldn’t worry too much about needing the space until my sons get older. I would only use Raid 1, but this configuration could potentially give me 8TB of data storage. I would like a three or four bay device with two 2TB drives to start. I spent some time investigating new NAS drives and making sure that I have space to expand but I think that will have to wait a few years. My data on the NAS is organised in Raid 1 configuration so that both drives are exact copies, just in case one of them fails. I guess there are worse things that this such as:īut still, it was enough to make me worry a little. On a list of things you don’t want to read is:ĭrive 2 on this device is at risk of failing, please replace.