Got a free seagate blackarmor 440 and cant get it working - please help

[Krovikan]

So i scored a seagate balckarmor 440 NAS from work, complete with 4 x 1TB HDD (woohoo). I want to get it working in RAID 5 on my home network for backup and cloud style storage.

 

So I powered it up, connected to Ethernet, and it is VERY clickey on boot but then settles down. It will power off before completing boot. If I remove all the drives, it gives an error after booting "No system HDD Found"

 

I put all the drives in a dock separately and it seems that drive 1 & 2 are dead (hence the too good to be true deal). Given that theres 100% no way for me to recover them (not that I want the data on them anyway), deleted the volumes on them that were part of a RAID. I put a working 1TB drive and it installed onto that drive. I do have 1 additional spare 1TB drive (same model) making 3. I have not worked with RAID 5 before, but I need to know, can I use a 2TB drive in slot 1 for Parity with slots 2-4 having 1TB drives?

 

I am making a few assumptions along the way here, so please correct anything ive said that is wrong.

 

Thanks

 

 

[Eigenvektor]

Should be doable, but since 3x 1TB will use 1x 1TB for parity, you're essentially wasting 1 TB.

[Krovikan]

14 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Should be doable, but since 3x 1TB will use 1x 1TB for parity, you're essentially wasting 1 TB.

Thanks. Yea, i assumed I would be wasting 1TB, but its worth it since im not using the 2TB atm anyway (and have other spare drives). Thanks

[Eigenvektor]

4 minutes ago, Krovikan said:

Thanks. Yea, i assumed I would be wasting 1TB, but its worth it since im not using the 2TB atm anyway (and have other spare drives). Thanks

It's possible that the RAID controller doesn't like it though. Some are particular about disk sizes etc. being the same.

[Krovikan]

Well, I'll find out TMR... I've set up the 2TB and freeded up the additional 1TB, it's 2300 here, so I'll have to finish tmr

[Krovikan]

So my update... Im running a 2TB in slot 1 and 3 x 1TB. When i go to create a new volume in Raid 5, it shows the 2TB as having 0 space available and therefore I can only make a drive of 2TB in RAID 5. Any ideas on this?

 

Thanks

[seagate_surfer]

Hope this helps: Seagate BlackArmor Manager: Identifying and Repairing RAID 5 Volume | Seagate Support US

Knowledge base: NAS 400 Series | Seagate Support US

[Krovikan]

3 hours ago, seagate_surfer said:

Hope this helps: Seagate BlackArmor Manager: Identifying and Repairing RAID 5 Volume | Seagate Support US

Knowledge base: NAS 400 Series | Seagate Support US

Thanks,. My current issue is that under "volumes" there is no icon to create a new volume. However, the NAS is detecting all my drives correctly. I have tried searching the issue but the only times i have found but, there was no answer

[Krovikan]

UPDATE: thanks to all who helped. I think the NAS has an issue itself. After power cycling, it looses all settings including passowrd and time. So, at least a scored a couple 1TB drives which I can use for backup of photos n stuff

[seagate_surfer]

On 12/10/2019 at 4:52 AM, Krovikan said:

UPDATE: thanks to all who helped. I think the NAS has an issue itself. After power cycling, it looses all settings including passowrd and time. So, at least a scored a couple 1TB drives which I can use for backup of photos n stuff

Oh no! It is a pity that you can't use it properly, but I'm glad that at least you now have 1 TB more free for storage.

[Salacious B Crum]

On 12/10/2019 at 5:52 AM, Krovikan said:

UPDATE: thanks to all who helped. I think the NAS has an issue itself. After power cycling, it looses all settings including passowrd and time. So, at least a scored a couple 1TB drives which I can use for backup of photos n stuff

Does it have and cmos battery maybe just a coin cell needs to be replaced