Hard Drive Maintenance; Adding/Replacing A Hard Drive - Seagate SRPS20 User Manual

Hard Drive Maintenance

The Seagate WSS NAS 2-Bay | 4-Bay | 6-Bay is a desktop hard drive enclosure. Review the details below for
hard drive tray locations and, where applicable, replacement.
Important info: Refer to the product's
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maintenance that is not described in this manual.
Precau ons
The hard drives for the Seagate WSS NAS 2-Bay | 4-Bay | 6-Bay are hot swappable. However, performing
other types of hardware maintenance within the enclosure is not supported and can void your product's
warranty.
During operation, all provided hardware (including the hard drives in their frames) should remain in place
for optimal airflow.
Observe all conventional ESD precautions when handling the NAS's parts.
Avoid contact with backplane components and connectors.
Never remove the WSS NAS's enclosure cover. Potential hazards of opening the cover while the product
is operating include, but are not limited to, rotating fans and hot surfaces. Removing the cover can void
your product's warranty.

Adding/replacing a hard drive

Follow the instructions below to perform one of the following:
Insert a new hard drive into an empty bay.
Expand storage space with a higher-capacity hard drive.
Replace a failed hard drive.
Hard drives in protected volumes are hot swappable. However, it is not possible to hot-swap more than
one hard drive at a time. If you are replacing more than one hard drive in a volume, wait for synchronization
to successfully complete before moving to the next hard drive.
Always confirm that the hard drive you are replacing can be removed without harming an array. For example,
you want to expand a hard drive from 2TB to 3TB. You know that the 2TB hard drive is part of a RAID 5 array
composed of four hard drives. You will lose data if you remove the 2TB hard drive and another hard drive in
the array has failed. Therefore, use Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials to check the health of all the
hard drives in the RAID array. In this example, you can replace the 2TB hard drive if it is the only hard drive in
the array that has failed and/or the other hard drives in the array are healthy.
Seagate WSS NAS 2-Bay | 4-Bay | 6-Bay
Warranty before performing any hardware repairs or
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