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I have a problem with an old 2-bay synology diskstation (DS211J)
I don't switch it on very often as it basically just contains a load of old photos (from the days of digital cameras) and the odd backup. Just switched it on again but can't access anything. I can just about connect, but trying to do anything basically results in a "too busy" error.
Lights in the front are:
Status: flashing orange
LAN: flickering green
Disk1 & 2: flashing green
There is a notification to say "Volume1: degraded". Originally I thought this meant one of the disks was corrupt, but I'm now thinking that volume1 isn't the same as disk1. If I look as the HDD info it says that they are both healthy (although only 1 of them seems to be used)
It's clearly busy doing something, so my first question is "should I just leave it to finish whatever it is doing or is it likely to damage the disks further if that is the problem?".
Thanks.
Your "only one of them seems to be used" comment when both lights on the front are flashing makes me think the disks are actually mirrored (copy of every file on both disks).
If they get out of sync it'll check the disks and rebuild anything that's corrupted.
So it's probably rebuilding the volume (of the two disks) and, yes you should just leave it to finish.
Thanks. That would make sense. I couldn't remember how I set it up, but mirrored would make sense with only two disks.
I can see that the size of the volume is 1.8 TB and I have two 2TB drives installed so that would also point to them being mirrored as I seem to recall that the other "RAID options" offered a bit more space but a bit less security.
I'll leave it for a few more hours at least.