Hard Drive Maintenance; Adding/Replacing A Hard Drive - Seagate Pro 2-Bay Manual

Hard Drive Maintenance

The Seagate NAS Pro 2-Bay | 4-Bay | 6-Bay is a desktop hard drive enclosure. Review the details below for
hard drive module 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 NAS Pro 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 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 module connectors, etc.
Never remove the NAS Pro'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 RAID volumes are hot swappable (e.g. SimplyRAID, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 6).
However, it is not possible to hot-swap more than one 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 a RAID 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 NAS OS 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 NAS Pro 2-Bay | 4-Bay | 6-Bay
Warranty before performing any hardware repairs or
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