ReadyNAS Device Compatibility List

mdgm wrote:
Buying disks before they're added to the HCL is not recommended as even if they are added in the future it can be difficult if not impossible to predict when they'll be added. Things can go wrong and NetGear will not add disks to the HCL until they are satisfied that they are compatible. There must still be an outstanding compatibility issue.

Only after speccing out and purchasing all of this, and wasting days and days while blowing multiple disks in this setup, did it ever even occur to me that there could be such a thing as an HCL for hard drives. That's NOT obvious, and there is no reason for the average person to understand the nuances of modern day hard disk firmwares and greenwashing and all of the other BS that causes a simple SATA device to behave badly like this.

Oh I've learned my lesson now - I will never be a WD/seagate/hitachi beta tester again, but it's not like I willfully ignored the HCL or just crossed my fingers or something - I had NO IDEA that modern drives were this ridiculously complicated and so fraught with bad code. Shame on them.

Oh, hey - there's that $2500+ paperweight again.

mdgm wrote:
These things take time to get sorted out.

They've been in the channel for purchase for 10 months now. I pity the poor people who _didn't_ blow a few drives right off the bat and are now nursing broken systems along, or worse, have lost data. At least my paperweight had no data on it yet...