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[Duo v2] bad sectors because the two disks are different
Hello, When I bought my ReadyNas Duo v2, only 1 hard-disk was included. A few weeks later, I decided to buy a second disk but the same disk was not available anymore. I then chose an hard-disk wit...
This statement is not correct. There are some manual codes on the Seagate site that you can enter - here is the current list: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/supp ... codes.html
PapaBear wrote: ...If you send a disk back that has not failed the SeaTools test or shown other signs of failure (other than increasing reallocated sectors) they will return it to you...
Seagate does reserve "the right to return a good drive back to its owner and to charge for all associated shipping costs", but they have never done that to me, and I have used these manual codes.
The drive should have failed with 1500+ reallocated sectors, which is why I think it would be useful to confirm that the NAS in fact read the SMART stats correctly.
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