![]() This is where I have to give kudos to Amazon – the default shipping option for the hard drives was overnight, arriving at my doorstep between 4am to 8am. Looking on Amazon I sought out the recommended model and added two to the cart at $83 each. I had heard that Synology was starting to be more critical about which drives they would support, so I took a look on their compatibility guide and learned that they prefer the WD Red Pro version of the drives that I am using. Looking at the failed drive serial I looked up the original order on Amazon and the warranty had expired a half a year earlier. Then in the UI, I muted the audible alarm. I unlocked the Drive 2 bay, slid the drive out and removed it from the hot-swap tray. However, this was noted in case I have a client someday that is running a business. I was still fine, and since this was a home NAS that the critical data was being CloudSync’ed to a BackBlaze B2 bucket, I wasn’t in any danger. This is where I had to chuckle to myself, since I had always heard that one should have a spare laying around when running a NAS. I looked up the Synology guide for how to handle the situation: Remove the drive, replace with a new one, execute a Repair on the volume. This was my first drive failure, so I didn’t know about the audible alarm. I setup this NAS as the hybrid Synology RAID (SHR) with data protection for 1-drive fault tolerance, so I knew I was fine until returning home.Īrriving back home on a Saturday I could hear the “beep beep beep” coming from the rack that the Synology was mounted in. This is the Synology DS1621+, and I had all 6 bays filled with WD Red 4TB drives. Sitting in the hotel suite in a remote beachside Oaxacan resort, I switched on the Wireguard app on my phone and navigated to my Synology interface and saw that Drive 2 had a “Crashed” status. Soon after the email of that report, I got an email alert that a drive had failed due to a sharp spike in bad sector count. Hard Drive Health Report ran on the Synology NAS. We just had a really nice two week vacation to Mexico – post with photos coming later – but while on vacation the monthly S.M.A.R.T.
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