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rgollar
Mar 02, 2015Aspirant
Just loaded readynas 516 with these drives (ST8000AS0002)
I just wanted to let people know that the readynas 516 is working just fine so far with Seagate ST8000AS0002 8TB hard drives. I so far have populated it with 4 of them and it has had no problems. Once...
zackiv31
Apr 11, 2015Aspirant
rgollar wrote: I only upgraded one drive at a time. I previously had it with 4tb drives in each bay. So when I updated it I swapped one out at a time and let it up date. It took about 1 1/2 to 2 days each drive. I also waited 3 days between adding each hard drive, just to make sure there wasnt any problem before I added another drive.
Thanks for the info! I'm assuming you're also with X-Raid2 dual redundancy? This will be about a week for all the drives to sync.. which seems in line with your 1.5-2 days per drive.
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