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Multiple failing Seagate Barracuda ST32000542AS
I bought 3 ReadyNAS (over the course of 5 months), and populated them all with identical Seagate Barracuda's They are the Barracuda LP ST32000542AS model, on the HCL and I chose these because there w...
PapaBear wrote: I am debating on returning it for an RMA rather than just discarding it. (My array started with 4x1TB Seagates in two NVX units plus two spares. I am currently running 2x3TB Hitachi + 2x1TB Seagate in each unit and plan on going on to 4x3TB in both units, so the 1TB drives would be surplus.)
I too looked into whether the Seagates are still under warranty. Im not sure whether a bunch of SMART errors would qualify as a broken drive, but from what I've read Seagate will replace the drives with refurbished ones rather than new ones.
Refurbished drives are not something I want in my NAS, so I guess I'll just write my drives off as a bad loss
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