New Asustor AS-608T NAS Unit Questions?

[JonathanF]

I just purchased a new Asustor AS-608T NAS Unit.
I updated the NAS unit with an approved 2 GB Memory Card.
I also installed Eight New Western Digital WD30EFRX Red 3 TB NAS Hard Drives.
The NAS Unit Is Connected With Two CAT7 Networking Cables To A Cisco Small Business SG 200-08 Gigabyte Smart Switch.
The Cisco Smart Switch is setup to use the 802.3ad Network Protocol.
I Downloaded the latest software.
I Configured and Setup the NAS unit for RAID 6 which allows for Six Drives For Storage and For Two Spare Drives For Parity And Striping.
I also setup Networking Link Aggregation for the 802.3ad setup.

Here are my questions.
The Storage Manager Configuration Software shows Seven of the Eight Drives Status Good, Smart Status Are Healthy, And One Drive Status Is Inactive and Smart Status Is Risky.
It also shows that the Status Of The Raid 6 is Degraded with the Data Protection Good With Faulty Disk Allowed is 1.
It also shows that the Inactive Drive is Smart Status is Risky.
Is The Eight Drive Definitely Defective?
Should I Just Send Back The Defective Drive And Replace It?
How Are The Eight Drive Bays Numbered On The AS-608T NAS Unit?
Are the Drives Bays numbered 1 to 8 across or down?
I need to know which of the Drive Bays Correspond To The Defective Eight Drive Bay.
Also on the Networking The NAS networking keeps on reverting back to the Round Robin Setting Even Though I Keep Setting It To The 802.3ad Networking Setup.
Does anyone have any ideas why this keeps on happening?
Thank You.
Jonathan S. Feingold
E-Mail: JSF413@Optimum.Net

[feejai]

Inactive Disk Issue:

I am having a similar issue with a RAID 5 volume here, in that I have one disc that recently went 'inactive'. Something I should have also asked fellow member "Folorin", what disk number are you having the issue with (mine is showing disk 4)? Just wondering perhaps if this is a hardware failure on a certain drive bay or if this is a software related issue.

[feejai]

Drive Bay Order:

I also agree that the documentation should show the drive order of the units. I just quickly went through the user guide and quick start and didn't see the map of the drives listed. I'm pretty sure that on the AS-608T, the drive numbers are 1 to 4 on the left from top to bottom and 5 to 8 on the right from top to bottom. Hopefully someone from Asustor can confirm:

Drive 1 Drive 5
Drive 2 Drive 6
Drive 3 Drive 7
Drive 4 Drive 8

[Folorin]

Just for the record, mine was also disk 4 in Physical Bay 5 I think. Coincidence I think.

All working now though *cross fingers*

[feejai]

802.3ad Networking Setup:

I had similiar issues trying to set up the Asustor with 802.3ad networking. From all the documentation I read, you must ensure that you configure your switch ports first with 802.3ad BEFORE configuring the Asustor NAS. I wasn't successful getting it set up on my Asustor either, after a half a dozen times trying to configure it, I eventually just gave up (for now ).

[feejai]

Interesting, not sure what you mean by Physical Bay 5 though. My 'inactive' disk 4, is what I believe it to be in bay 4. Oh I get it now, lol, guess it depends on when you added the disk/set up the volume in what disk was selected. Will be interesting to see what JonathanF reports, if it is also showing disk 4 as inactive).

Just for the record, mine was also disk 4 in Physical Bay 5 I think. Coincidence I think.

All working now though *cross fingers*

[Steve@AST]

Hi feejai,

Your description is correct, below is the figure of the disk order of AS-608T,
we will also think about how to let user get the information of disk order easier.