Check this too see what’s coming…
https://forum.storj.io/t/so-long-tnx-for-all-the-fish/23218
So it’s SMR drive and USB connected; 2 bad choises.
The smart move here would be:
- stop the node and check the drive on a PC if Synology gives you headache. Even if it’s ext4, you cand enable support in windows for it.
- get a nice Enterprise level drive of at least 8TB, CMR.
- move the data to it.
Being the state of the drive that maybe will start degrading quicly or die, you should use the most rapid way: put both drives in a PC, internal cabling, and clone it, after checking and repairing the filesystem and marking the bad sectors. But this depends on what filesystem you are using now and what you will use on the new drive. And where you intend to put it.
Keep in mind that from what we saw in this forum, NTFS is strugling with big drives used for storagenodes (SN); best fs in our case is ext4, and no RAID. If you go after a new drive, look at Seagate Exos 16TB and above and Toshiba MG10. If you have UPS, Seagate is much quicker. If you don’t, Toshiba is better because can take sudden shutdowns, but is slower.
Also consider to stop using the external hdd case, and do all the checking and moving from a pc, with internal sata cabling. Maybe the external case is dying to.