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New NAS, Old drives, New errors :S (with pic)
Hi Guys,
Just received delivery of my new replacement ReadyNAS NV+ after my ye olde one's PSU self-immolated.
I am a little concerned with the state of the drives after I placed them back in the replacemnt NAS though. I knew one of the drives was very slowly dropping sectors on the old NAS, but I was surprised to see three of the drives now failing. Any opinions on the below? How many is too many bad sectors? Rate of failure = urgency in replacement?
Just received delivery of my new replacement ReadyNAS NV+ after my ye olde one's PSU self-immolated.
I am a little concerned with the state of the drives after I placed them back in the replacemnt NAS though. I knew one of the drives was very slowly dropping sectors on the old NAS, but I was surprised to see three of the drives now failing. Any opinions on the below? How many is too many bad sectors? Rate of failure = urgency in replacement?
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- NetGear recommends replacement with a count of 50 or more. From the counts disk 1, 2 and 4 need replacing. Looks like those disks have been running for almost three years and have had a pretty good run.
Do you have an up to date backup? If not the first thing I would suggest you do is to make one. - Oh yeah. Never lost a shred of data thanks to the community here that provided details on mounting the drives on Linux.
I guess I better go shopping for some new drives then. - I just preformed a factory reset on it. It is now updating back to 4.1.9
- So it had 4.1.9 before the factory reset? If it did not have 4.1.7 or later installed before the factory reset I would suggest doing another factory reset. See Why you might want to factory reset a Sparc ReadyNAS
Also note that there is an ownership/permissions issue with 4.1.9. I do not recommend running 4.1.9. 4.1.8 and 4.1.10 beta are better options. - It came with 4.1.9. I factory reset it and it dropped back to 4.1.8. It's back to 4.1.9 now. But of course it will remain unused until I can source three replacement disks for it. Looking at the Seagate ST2000DM001
mdgm wrote: I do not recommend running 4.1.9. 4.1.8 and 4.1.10 beta are better options.
I'm hesitant to run beta. Or will it be fine?- That's up to you.
If you want to run 4.1.8 you'll need to disable automatic updates under System > Update > Settings
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