I have a 4x1TB sharespace device from WD. The problem is that a device reset/factory default is RAID 5, which takes forever. The quickest way to get access to the device is to yank out 3 of the drives, leaving only one of the drives in and booting up, which resets the device to a JBOD/SPAN with a single drive. Takes only a few minutes, compared to days for a RAID 5.
Turns out one of the HDDs were defective, so I RMA-ed and got a new one. RAID 5 rebuild is much quicker now.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)