Backup in degraded mode before new drive?

System & Disk Volume Management

Backup in degraded mode before new drive? One of the drives in my RAID 5 array seems to have failed - the NAS reports a "read/write failure" despite the SMART data being "good" and a disk test being successful. Re-seating the drive and cold booting the TS-412 NAS made no difference (actually I removed all the drives and removed dust from them then reseated them). Would it be advisable to back up the array in ... more ...Statistics : 2 Post || 144 Views Post by robg