On a list of things you don’t want to read [first world problems] is:
Drive 2 on this device is at risk of failing, please replace.
I guess there are worse things that this such as:
Drive 2 has failed.
Both drives have failed.
But still, it was enough to make me worry a little. My data on the NAS is organised in Raid 1 configuration so that both drives are exact copies, just in case one of them fails.
I spent some time investigating new NAS drives and making sure that I have space to expand but I think that will have to wait a few years. I would like a three or four bay device with two 2TB drives to start. I would only use Raid 1, but this configuration could potentially give me 8TB of data storage. I currently have used about 0.5 TB on the current NAS and that is after two years of ownership so I shouldn’t worry too much about needing the space until my sons get older.
I ordered a Western Digital 1TB Red drive as the WD website said that it was a suitable HDD for the ix2 series of NAS. I had planned for the whole operation to take an hour but in reality it took about 10 minutes and that was with me taking my time. Really impressed with how simple it was to replaced the drive.
Here’s the NAS.
After removing the two screws on the base of the device I removed the old disk 2.
Unscrewed the old HDD from the plastic casing.
Screwed the new HDD into the casing.
Slid the new HDD and casing into the NAS enclosure and replaced the screws in the bottom of the device.
Placed NAS back in its place in the “tech corner” of the house and turned it on.
After a lot of drive reading and writing it was ready for log in access and the control panel said it was rebuilding data protection [most instructions I read had said I would have to authorise this action]. I will amend this once the data rebuild is complete.
This whole process was pretty simple and I’m impressed with Iomega for the drive and am feeling quite smug at the moment.