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AndyBee1
May 08, 2014Aspirant
ReadyNAS 314 - a year of hell and now lost 10years of data!
I bought a ReadyNAS 314 when they were new in the market back in April 2013. I bought it partly because I wanted to safeguard my increasing data storage with redundancy in case of disk failure, and al...
tony359
May 09, 2014Apprentice
Regarding to the camera, I cannot argue. If it does not work, you should get back to Netgear, they cannot advertise something that does not work.
Re. drives: they do fail. If your box of HDDs was dropped on the floor by the courier :) they would fail within months. No surprise. Your NAS hasn't broken them. It happens. Have them replaced.
Now, you say the device is giving you false warning: have you checked the disks on a PC, with the seagate tool? If the disks are fine, I would ask Netgear to replace the box or, if the issue is a software one, to exchange it with another one which does not have this problem. Or a refund. That sounds reasonable to me.
Re. drives: they do fail. If your box of HDDs was dropped on the floor by the courier :) they would fail within months. No surprise. Your NAS hasn't broken them. It happens. Have them replaced.
Now, you say the device is giving you false warning: have you checked the disks on a PC, with the seagate tool? If the disks are fine, I would ask Netgear to replace the box or, if the issue is a software one, to exchange it with another one which does not have this problem. Or a refund. That sounds reasonable to me.
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