ReadyNAS Device Compatibility List

Rainbowman wrote:
Hi Han Solo, That will be great if you could let me know how to use Seatools that is on the drive. Thanks.

In the following link you will be able to download Seatools as well as look a at a tutorial that Seagate has on how to use Seatools.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

Try that out and let me know how it goes.

I just tried to connect to one of my computers and ran SeaTools. The first drive failed, but when I tried the 2nd & 3rd drive, my computer got the blue screen error and crashed. Not sure if the mobo couldn't handle the drives because they are SATA2. I didn't even attempt to try the 4th drive. I am returning all 4 to Newegg and exchanging them and will give them another try in the NAS NV+.

By the way, is there an USB2.0 external enclosure that can handle the Seagate 1.5TB SATA2 out there, so I could at least use it to test the drives?

Thanks for the suggestion earlier.

I am using the ReadyNAS DUO on my home network with a D-Link DIR-655 gigabit router and it's working great. (Only had it a couple weeks now.)

I have recently purchased the NV+, and am now looking for a USB drive to use to back it up. But the hardware compatibility list seems to only show units going up to about 250 GB.

Are there are larger units that are known to be compatible (I'm looking in the 750GB to 1 TB size)?

Most will likely work, but we cannot keep up with everything out there.

Few to watch out for, that work, but need tweaking, are the Maxtor/Seagate OneTouch/FreeAgent. These have power management, which needs to be disabled, or they become read-only file systems.

Han Solo wrote:
Hi Rainbowman, Support for the Seagate 1.5TB drives is in the latest release (4.1.4) that it looks like you downloaded already. The problem you are reporting looks like it could actually be a bad drive. What I would recommend is to use Seatools on the drive to verify if the drive is OK or not. If you are unfamiliar with Seatools please let me know and I will help you out.

Han Solo --

I'd like to run Seatools to check one of the drives installed on my ReadyNAS. It has been reporting warning messages pretty much since I got it (about 7 months ago) saying the following:

> Reallocated sector count has increased in the last day.
> Disk 3:
> Previous count: 15
> Current count: 16
> Growing SMART errors indicate a disk that may fail soon. If the errors continue to increase, you should be prepared to replace the disk.

Anyways, I have the impression that running Seatools is intended for internal drives or external drives which you connect to via USB. I however connect to the drives in my ReadyNAS via my local network. Will Seatools work given this setup?

Thanks in advance.

The Netgear WNR3500 RANGEMAX WIRELESS-N GIGABIT ROUTER works great with my ReadyNAS NV+

Unfortunately my Lexmark P6250 All-in-One printer doesn't play nice!

I posted this question in another topic but maybe this was the right place to ask ...

I have ReadyNAS Duo with Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB inside. It works fine up to now but I want to buy another disk and put my NAS into Raid configuration. Because of the latest issues with Seagate disks I am thinking of buying Western Digital disk of 750 GB that I found on Netgear compatibility list.

My question is: can I put this WD disk as a second disk into ReadyNAS Duo ?

Hi again,

Nobody answered my question so I decided to proceed on my own and here are some experiences that might help somebody in making decisions concerning ReadyNAS Duo ....

First of all, I have ReadyNAS Duo 750 GB version, which came with pre-installed Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 disc. This particular disc is working just fine (although I am switching on and off my NAS every day) but because of the well known issues with Barracudas I decided to use Raid-X capability of this NAS in order to secure my data. It was quite clear to me that I will not go for another Seagate product.

So I decided to buy Western Digital WD1001FALS 1 TB disc. I installed it in ReadyNAS and immediately after switching on my NAS, it started to initialize the new disc. This process of initializing was finished after approx. 6,5 hours and then it started a synchronisation process. After 1 hour this process has been stopped with the message that some errors have been found on a disc and that they have been corrected. The initialisation started again. After several additional hours both processes finished without problems and NAS was running in Raid.

It is running already two days and I do not see any problems with it. It runs warmer as before (with only one disc inside Seagate was running at +37 grad. C and now it is 42 grad. C for Seagate and about 44 grad. C for WD) and produces marginally more noise. SMART attributes are telling me that there are some sporadic issues with WD (Spin up time) but it is not necessarily something connected with NAS ... ReadyNAS recognised that WD disc is larger than Barracuda and it is using only 750 GB (acctually 693 GB) of 1 TB available space.

So basically WD1001FALS is working with ReadyNAS Duo and it seems even to be a good pair for existing Seagate. On the other hand, two days are certainly not enough time to make any definitive conclusions. Therefore, please accept this post only as an experience - that is all I can say at the moment ...