Rebuilding Process Takes Ages to Finish

[DMathew32]

WD,

One of the drives has failed and the rebuilding process started last Wednesday. Today is Sunday and it isn’t finished. What’s the deal here? … I opened a ticket in Wednesday and again today is Sunday and haven’t heard from WD.

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Please help

[lluna]

Hi, what is the size of the drive? Did you change the drive that failed for a good drive? Have you tried to access the drive or ping the last known IP?

[DMathew32]

This is a WD Sentinel RX4100 3TB * 4 drives of total 12TB configured as RAID 5. No I haven’t changed the drive yet. I assume that the server will function with just 3 drives after the rebuild due to the fact that parity bit is distributed across functional drives. What IP did you mean? … The server responds to echoes just fine.

The rebuild is 42% since last Wednesday.

Thanks.

[Gramps]

If a drive fails it will say degraded. When it sees another drive back it will start rebuilding. It may take 6 days to rebuild in the background. It should still function, just be terribly slow