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BaJohn
Feb 04, 2015Virtuoso
NAS Disk Test - Find out how long?
Being new to ReadyNAS there were various things I wanted to know. One of these was the NAS Disk Test, either via boot options, or scheduled volume settings on recent OS. The tests are a SMART Extend...
BaJohn
Mar 16, 2015Virtuoso
StephenB wrote: Have you upgraded firmware since the last test?
My WD60EFRX test ran about 11 minutes on my RN202 a couple days ago. I am thinking that Netgear may have switched to the short SMART test.
No, all 3 tests were on OS 6.2.2, BUT quirkily the 'Check For Updates' link does not return any "You have the latest ..." anymore. There is no message whatsoever.
Presumably you have upgraded recently?
Where would I look in the downloaded log files to find an error with Disk Test (that was not reported in the GUI logs).
I did mention in another post that it would be nice to know what the most important log files were. Is there a description somewhere?
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