Guys,
I have an old TS1232PXV-RP. It says the disk in slot 5 has an error, so I replaced the disk with a known good (tested in another TS1232PXV-RP). The Drive access light flashes green then sets red and the drive is shown as failed. Remove drive, insert into the other TS1232PXV-RP and it shows good.
OK so we have established its probably a backplane issue. The question is how much for a backplane replacement? I suspect the cost of an out of warranty repair is around the same as a second user unit from eBay (back up config, shut down, swap all the hardware, boot and restore config) but wondered if anyone has a figure for the replacement backplane.
We are extremely budget constrained here hence the not just throwing a new NAS in to replace a 8 year old unit.
Of course, another drive is in warning on the RAID (3 bad sector reports in SMART) - slot 5 went bad when doing a full test on slot 10. The best solution is to do the backplane repair so the RAID can rebuild and I can sort out the other disk later.
