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mtkeane
Jun 20, 2014Aspirant
ReadyNAS NV+ Hanging...think it's a bad disk
3 times over the past 2 weeks my ReadyNAS NV+ has hung...I can't access shares or FrontView. I have to do a hard boot by pulling the power cable. Once it comes back up it does a resync which takes a...
StephenB
Jun 20, 2014Guru - Experienced User
They should last longer than that. Backblaze uses consumer drives, and 80% of their drives are still running after 4 years. They expect half them will still be running after 6 years. http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/ho ... ives-last/
readysecure1985 wrote: ...Your disks have varying ages. It looks like they are almost at least 2 years old (some are older than others). Most individuals are lucky to have their drives last so long in a RAID device...
All four drives with errors, ages from 10 months to 27 months is certainly not lucky - even the relatively unreliable Seagates should do better than that. http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/wh ... uld-i-buy/
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