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Post by elcampeador on Jul 21, 2008 2:49:45 GMT 7
I turned my 3200 off for the night, and then turned it on in the morning. Got a message on the LCD that said:
(r)sync,pls wait ESC key to Con'u
If I hit escape, it boots, beeps, gives the scrolling messages Up Time, Hostname etc.
But it is trying to rebuild the RAID, so performance is slow. I can browse to the device, and see my data.
I am afraid of losing my data by letting the RAID continue to rebuild.
Thecus support hasn't covered itself in glory.
What I want to know is -
1. What is it that triggered a RAID5 rebuild?
2. Is it wiping my data, or just doing something else?
3. How can I stop the RAID rebuild while I identify and move my most critical data off the (suddenly dodgy) device?
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Post by elcampeador on Jul 25, 2008 6:54:02 GMT 7
Nobody?
OK I'm going to turn it on and write out what happens, and what I try.
7.45pm Hit the On button. Unit boots, uP Ver:012 Booting...
7.47pm (R)sync,Pls Wait ESC key to Con'u so I hit Esc.
7.50pm Unit beeps. RAID: Building 0.9%
7.51pm Browse to device doing a \\hostname and up it pops. Data is there. Slow response time.
So what should I do?
Should I just let the RAID rebuild? Or should I panic and take my data off before the meter approaches 100%?
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Post by bacon on Jul 25, 2008 20:07:13 GMT 7
I don't know what has triggered the RAID rebuild - mine did it once, but hasn't since.
Don't worry about your data, AFAIK the RAID rebuild means that it is simple resyncing the disks in the RAID array and not destroying your data, more like re-replicating it. e.g.
If you have a Mirrored Raid (2 disk, maybe with Spare 3rd disk), it will be ensuring the the data is the same on both disks.
If you have RAID 5 (which is better for the balance between capacity/performance/redundancy) it is doing the same, but across 3 disks. (Writing stripe-stripe-parity, stripe-parity-stripe, parity-stripe-stripe, etc etc)
Either way your data should remain intact - Mine was.
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Post by slyttle on Jul 27, 2008 19:56:51 GMT 7
I had this happen as well. Seems like it is a general issue with the 3200 because I've heard a lot of people complain about it.
It was happening to me mostly when I used the scheduler. I've stopped using it and the problem seemed to go away.
BTW. I have reported this to Thecus and they sent me a new box ... same thing happened, so it looks like a general design flaw.
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Post by slypie on Jul 29, 2008 1:05:04 GMT 7
Mine just flakes out copying large amounts of data to it and then rebuilds. The 3200 promises so much but is flawed to the point of being useless. I've sent mine back after messing on with it for weeks. Thecus fix for everything is to send it back but it's plain to me either there is a high fault rate with the 3200 or it's simply a hardware/firmware fault.
Shame now I'm just going to by an enclosure and a 1TB disk for my backups.
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Post by elcampeador on Aug 7, 2008 5:13:57 GMT 7
Hey cheers for the help guys. Appreciate the feedback.
I'm going to start it up now and let it sync overnight.
It would have been nice of Thecus support to just let me know that others have had this problem before.
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Post by microugly on Aug 22, 2008 8:46:09 GMT 7
Mine just flakes out copying large amounts of data to it and then rebuilds. The 3200 promises so much but is flawed to the point of being useless. I've sent mine back after messing on with it for weeks. Thecus fix for everything is to send it back but it's plain to me either there is a high fault rate with the 3200 or it's simply a hardware/firmware fault. I've logged a seperate topic for rebuilds occuring midway through a large file transfer here - thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=n3200installations&action=display&thread=2797You didn't specifically say you had it replaced, but I assume you did and it had the same problem. I am keen to know how large your file was. |
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Post by badkarma on Aug 30, 2008 22:59:02 GMT 7
Hello All, I'm very disapointed  to constat that my current new problem with my new N3200, already exist and seems not be resolved... So, I'have 3 new SAMSUNG HD130UJ 1T on the N3200... and each time that I reboot it, the N3200 makes a resync/rebuild that takes a very long time (8-10 H) I think... Someone can tell me if the resync/rebuild in RAID 5 is a normal behaviour of the N3200 ? Or if I must return my Disks or the N3200 in RMA? Thanks in advance, Bad Karma. |
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Post by indiana on Sept 8, 2008 20:20:33 GMT 7
now i have the resync again
have to wait 10 hours
during this time its not really possible to access the data
if i will have it again i sent the device back!
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to constat that my current new problem with my new N3200, already exist and seems not be resolved...