Is it typical for 3 days to go by under startup initialization with no change in status for a DS6100?
Background. Noticed that the dashboard showed my second boot drive as degraded. In the past, it would randomly show the 2nd boot drive as degraded but a system initiated reboot would result in the 2nd boot coming back online as normal. This time the error came up again and I rebooted. However, as opposed to restarting properly its been stuck in the startup initialization mode for 3 days know. Waiting to screw with it as I’ve read that for other Sentinel products this could take a few days.
That said, since this is a dual boot drive system, why wouldn’t it have default to the second boot drive? Should I continue waiting? Anyway to check status?
I have it set up with Storage Spaces and have 3 3TB drives in the box. I’ve never received any errors on the storage drives.
Any insight is appreciated. Love the horsepower in this small box. Just wish this box were as stable as my HP Microservers
If the box is not “up” as in you cant get to the shares etc, I would power off and try again. If it is running, I would check the WD services and try to start them.
But that is my idea. Might want to contact WD. If you do power off, you might want to plug in a keyboard and monitor to see what is happening.
Thanks Gramps! Had a feeling you’d provide the first answer!
OK. This is for reference for others. Did some sleuthing and found another website that noted that when you have (2) RAID 1 boot drives that you may have to remove one of the drives for the system to boot up. The DS6100 comes with 2 boot drives standard and I believe that they DS5100 allows you to add another boot drive (RAID 1). I removed the second boot drive (the one that was randomly throwing the errors) and the system finally booted up. Before removing, the system never made it past the BIOS splash screen - ever. I have a replacement drive on delivery while the single drive is chugging along. Hope someone finds this helpful.
A couple follow on questions:
In theory how does the second boot drive come into play if one of them goes bad? Is this typical that I would have to remove the bad drive (how would you know if it didn’t throw any errors) before it would boot up? I thought that if the boot drive was bad that it would default to the working drive.
Is there a way to determine the health of the SSD? The dashboard would always read healthy but on occasion would state that the drive was missing. Nothing in between nor any error messages noted on dashboard.
