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Perfectly good drive being wrongfully accused as dead?
Is it possible to have a perfectly good drive being kicked out of the raid array and being labeled as dead simple because it lagged too much and timeout due to being a green drive and slow performance...
vandermerwe wrote: Seatools can do a Full Erase, which is essentially a destructive write test.
Your data volume is very full, could have something to do with it.
Is the data backed up? If so you could try to swap out one of the other LP disks with the problematic one.
Try the disk in another system first perhaps.
1. Do you see this Full Erase in the latest version of Seatools? I am looking but I don't see it. Can you tell me what menu you see it listed under?
2. I have never in my entire life had to update the firmware for a hard drive however if you think it will help I can give it a shot. Usually they work fine out of the box.
* I took a look and about half are running CC34 ( including the one that is flagged as dead) and half are running CC32. I believe the current version is CC35.
Does this possible risk the data on the drives when you update the firmware?
Thanks
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