New drive gone - not initialized

[Fantomen]

syslog.txtHello,

I bought a new harddrive today (WD 4TB) and plugged it in to my NAS. Upon starting the server, everything appeared to be fine and it showed up under unassigned devices. 

I stopped the array and first assigned it as a parity device and then started array. Here´s where my mistake comes. I realized that I did not want to run it as a parity device (I have a larger HDD on the way for this) and stopped the array (before checking) and unassigned it. After this it just dissapeared and I coudln´t add it as a normal device in the array. 

I tried to reboot the server hoping it would appear but no luck. 

 

I plugged in the drive to my Windows PC and there it shows up as "uninitalized drive". When trying to Initialize it I get I/O Error which I cannot resovle.

 

Can anyone help me? 
syslog.txt
Attaching my log. 

 

 

 

 

hp-nas-diagnostics-20201221-1755.zip

Edited December 21, 2020 by Fantomen

[JorgeB]

If the drive doesn't show up in Unraid either there's a connection problem or it's failing.

 

18 minutes ago, Fantomen said:

I plugged in the drive to my Windows PC and there it shows up as "uninitalized drive". When trying to Initialize it I get I/O Error which I cannot resovle.

This suggest the latter.

[Fantomen]

3 hours ago, JorgeB said:

If the drive doesn't show up in Unraid either there's a connection problem or it's failing.

 

This suggest the latter.

Surely, that is possible. But isn´t it quite unlikely when the drive is brand new? Will RMA if I can´t get it solved.