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sander11
Jan 23, 2011Aspirant
HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3020ALA632 (0F12117)
Has anyone tried these? I'm looking into the upgrading my NAS and I'm limited to 512k sectors unless I want to do a factory reset, which would be an unbelievable amount of work given the disk juggling...
Ionitor
Jun 22, 2012Aspirant
For what it's worth (which isn't much, since these drives seem to be on their way out of production -- I suppose that means they'll go on the official list any day), I've been running 5 of these drives on my Pro 6 with dual parity for about 7 months. At the beginning of the week, during the weekly resync, one of the drives failed, as confirmed by Hitachi Drive Tools in my PC. Fortunately, I had just ordered two more to expand the volume and have a backup drive on hand, so I was able to replace the dead drive Wednesday night, and recovery was completely successful. I then added the sixth drive, and the expansion has also succeeded.
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