RAID 6 is designed to be fault-tolerant — able to survive two drive failures. But when things go wrong, it’s usually not because the system failed… it’s because the rebuild did.
Silent sector errors, out-of-sync parity, or mistaken drive swaps can all cause RAID 6 arrays to fail in ways that look recoverable — until they’re not.
This page is your safe starting point.
We’ll walk you through what symptoms mean, what not to try on your own, and when to let ADR step in.
RAID 6 Triage Pages
We’ll walk you through what symptoms mean, what not to try on your own, and when to let ADR step in.
- RAID 6 Failed But Only One Drive Died
- Foreign Config Detected on RAID 6 — Import or Not?
- RAID 6 Virtual Disk Not Detected After Power Loss
- Rebuild Won’t Start After Second Drive Swap
- RAID 6 Rebuild Stuck — No Progress, No Errors
- Recreated RAID 6 — But Files Are Missing or Corrupt
- RAID 6 Degraded, Then Crashed — What Happened?