Readynas Duo and WD2003FZEX compatibility

The duo and nv+ v1 HCL are updated rarely. If you purchased more than three years ago (likely) you are out of warranty anyway.

Personally I am using the WD20EFRX in my duo v1, and have had no trouble with it. Hopefully folks who have experience with the WD2003FZEX will reply. Though I'd probably try them first, and see what happens.

What firmware are you running? You might need to update the firmware first (and if your setup is old, you might want to do a factory reset). There's a guide here you might want to check. http://www.rnasguide.com/2011/06/22/why ... -readynas/

Thanks for the reply and info, They will be arriving tonight but I doubt I will get a chance to try them until late Sunday. I'm a little hesitant to have the NAS powered on any longer than necessary, it is currently powered off and I do not remember what firmware is running. I'm fairly certain Ive updated it at least once. I'm not sure if it would be quicker and safer to backup the data on the remianing working disk over to another external prior to trying to sync with one of the new drives or not. The (1TB) drive is almost all the way full. I have the majority of the data backed up elsewhere but theres at least a hundred gigs or so that has not been backed up. The drive that is still working is actually the oldest. I will check out the factory reset ;link once I have secured my data and have everything backed up again. I hope someone else who has tried the WD2003FZEX drives will respond as well.

You do need to make sure that the firmware supports 2 TB drives.

Firmware was the latest available for my device. Initialization and Sync with new drive was successful and only took about 5 hours to complete with 925 GB of data even though RAIDiator initially estimated 17-21 hours.

The new 2TB drive seems to continuously be running about 10 degrees F hotter than the older drive since insertion. Also there seems to be more noise, not fan noise but like small clock like platter seeking?? Not sure how to describe. I'm kind of a newb with all of this. Ive had other drives external and internal that I could tell they were failing and were making noises prior to doing so but I don't think this is the same thing. Maybe there is some indexing still going on after almost a full day?? I previously did not have the drives set to spin down after inactivity but since I wont be accessing the information contained on them very often at all I thought I would go ahead and do so. Not sure about benefits over continuously spinning in this situation.
I will wait a few weeks to replace the older 1 TB with the other 2 TB for the added expansion to make sure I wont end up having both of the drives fail.

Thanks all for reading and any info you care to share.

Here are the stats for my current drives:

Old 1 TB WD that was still running fine

Model: WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1
Serial: WD-WCAU47021298
Firmware: 01.01A01
SMART Attribute
Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 6850
Start Stop Count 243
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 22353
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 51
Power-Off Retract Count 8
Load Cycle Count 243
Temperature Celsius 39
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0

Extended Attribute
Hot-add events 0
Hot-remove events 0
Lp stat events 0
Power glitches 0
Hard disk resets 0
Retries 0
Repaired sectors 0


And the new 2 TB: Already showing 4 Lp stat events within 20 hours :/ I read elsewhere I could ignore them but not sure.

SMART Information for Disk 2

Model: WDC WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA0
Serial: WD-WMC130056271
Firmware: 01.01A01
SMART Attribute
Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 0
Start Stop Count 3
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 20
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 3
Power-Off Retract Count 2
Load Cycle Count 0
Temperature Celsius 44
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0

Extended Attribute
Hot-add events 0
Hot-remove events 0
Lp stat events 4
Power glitches 0
Hard disk resets 0
Retries 0
Repaired sectors 0

Hard to say if the noise is a concern or not w/o hearing it. I wouldn't be concerned about the lp stat events at this point.

You picked a high-performance drive, which uses more power and is acoustically noisier than the older "green" drive you are running.

I swapped my 2 old Saegate 1.5TB disks after more than 5 years to 2 WD2003FZEX in my ReadyNAS Duo (Radiator version 4.1.14). No problem, but I had to do it from scratch because the old Seagate disks have been formatted with the "old" format. Therefore the normal extension method was not possible (2 TB disks cannot have the "old" format).
Up to now the new WD black disks run without any problem, but as you mention they make a clicky noise when the disks are accessed.
I have the impression that the temperature is sligtly lower compared to the old Seagate diks. No they are max. 37C; the Seagate reached 42C