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Is hard-disk really dead?
Hi guys, I have a Readynas Pro 6 with 6x Hitachi 7K3000 2TB Drives. It's only been running for about 2 weeks & I've been mostly happy with it. It's running with X-RAID dual redundancy. From the ve...
RhysAndrews wrote: opt2bout,
I'm using 4.2.18 and am having problems, not 4.2.19.
Yeah, I finally got a copy of 4.2.18 and updated the firmware. Less than 24 hours later--BAM! Volume is re-syncing on its own. In the next 24 hours I predict that the drive in Bay 1 will go "DEAD" without any SMART errors (it has been running 542 hours since back-revving to 4.2.17 and absolutely zero problems. Less than one day after updating to 4.2.18 and I am having erratic behavior.
I thought maybe the "green" drives may be at issue with the firmware. But then I recall, the first drive to "fail" (which is now in use on another server) wasn't a green drive.
But something in the newer firmware is triggering this. I will update this in a few days to see what happens. I sure liked having my Lion backups running though.
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