Replacing drive in Synology NAS corrupted DSM and removed applications?

[Overloke]

I have a Synology DS418 4-bay NAS. I'm just running it in a JBOD at the moment, until I can scrounge the funds to get some 8TB NAS drives and slap it into RAID5.

 

Earlier tonight, I found a 3TB drive kicking around, so I deleted everything from the NAS, shut it down, and swapped out an older 1TB drive with the new 3TB one.

 

When I turned the NAS back on, it appears that almost all of the applications I had on it don't work anymore, likely requiring me to reinstall and configure them. Not a HUGE pain, but certainly an annoyance I didn't foresee.

 

I fully expected to need to nuke my storage pool and everything when swapping out the drive - since it's just a JBOD and doesn't have any redundancy - but I'm just curious if anyone else has run into the same issue where simply swapping out a drive as part of a JBOD pool resulted in a BUNCH of applications from the Package Center no longer working. Even weirder, there's apparently meant to be a 'Repair' button - that's not there. I also install the Logs Viewer, but that doesn't show any log relating to any application issue either.

 

 

The note says to go to Storage Manager for detailed information...but there's nothing in Storage Manager to indicate any issues. This also persists through reboots. I REALLY don't want to set up DSM from scratch again, and I VAGUELY remember something like this happening YEARS ago when I last swapped out a drive.

 

If anyone has any thoughts, that'd be cheers.

[Bersella AI]

When installing apps on DSM, there should be a prompt asking which pool to install them. This problem may be due to these apps being previosly installed onto the main storage pool, and specifically, onto this exact 1TB drive to be replaced. I had previously utilized DSM on my custom build for 3 years, and always installed apps on a tiny pool located on the boot drive, which avoided any corruption after replacements of other drives for storage expansion.