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ReadyNAS Duo and odd drives
In a ReadyNAS Duo, do the two drives have to be identical? (I want to run with mirrored drives) I currently have one of these: Seagate 2TB Barracuda LP 3.5" Hard Drive - SATAII 5900rpm 32MB Cac...
It does seem odd, since the drives all are supposed to have many spare sectors to reallocate. So a small number of bad sectors should not impact the capacity.
PapaBear wrote: One would assume so, but, I have twice had brand new drives have the same problems. The first time was with two Samsung 500GB drives I attempted to add to exapand a volume of 2x500GB Seagate drives. The NV+ accepted the first and rejected the second as being too small. The second time was with the two 1TB Seagates of the same model. Since I did not format the drives with a desktop, I do not know if there were bad sectors, but one would think so.
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