Possible bad drive in Synology

brentsg

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One of my Synology drives sounds like it's on the way out, but it's an 8 bay and I'm unsure which one. SMART data is fine at this point, so not helpful.

I'm not familiar enough with these things to know what to do. Can I shut down and pull a drive, boot, listen for noise? Or will that just fubar things?

I have 7 bays populated and have a cold spare that's inserted but not activated in any way. There is no particular reason for this other than I haven't bothered to add the extra storage, which I need.

There are probably 10 other pieces of data I should post but I'm half asleep.
 
What disk setup are you using? RAID 6/etc?

Odds are you can pull a drive, see if the noise stops, and reinsert drive until you find the right one and be ok. NAS will tell you there is a fault, but once the disk is reinstalled the fault should clear. I think most models can even hot swap, but if you don’t have to do that I wouldn’t.

Depending on the drive setup. Something like JBOD or Raid 0 (can’t imagine that with 7 drives but hey).... then no, it will bork something.
 
DO NOT pull drives haphazardly in a live Synology, depending on your FS it can have unfortunate results. If you want to investigate the noise from a drive, power down the synology and the while it is off one at a time remove the drives, connect them to another power source and let them spin up and listen for the sound. Make sure to reinsert the drives into their original slot.
 
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