Leon Barber

I completed the replacement process as follows, and everything appears to be normal. Copied the existing parity file to the new drive. With both 14TB drives in USB docks, a 7TB parity file, and transfer rate of only 85MB/s, this step took almost 24 hours. Unfortunately, the source drive disconnected with less than 5% to go, and the copy had to be repeated. Started the copy a second time, and for some odd reason, the transfer rate this time was 230MB/s, so it completed in only 9 hours. Placed the...

Hello, I have 6 data disks and 2 parity, under Windows 10 Pro, connected to an Areca HBA in JBOD mode. My previous sync failed due to bad sectors on the first parity drive, and data has changed since last successful sync. I attempted to repair with chkdsk /F /R, but it returned insufficient space to replace bad clusters. I'm not clear on what the recovery procedure is with the new replacement disk. Following the FAQ section at https://www.snapraid.it/faq#reppardisk , it suggests first running a sync,...

Hello, I have 6 data disks and 2 parity, connected to an Areca HBA in JBOD mode. My previous sync failed due to bad sectors on the first parity drive, and data has changed since last successful sync. I attempted to repair with chkdsk /F /R, but it returned insufficient space to replace bad clusters. I'm not clear on what the recovery procedure is with the new replacement disk. Following the FAQ section at https://www.snapraid.it/faq#reppardisk , it suggests first running a sync, which is not possible...