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Readynas trigger drive as Dead but CrystalDisk shows disk in good health?
This will be the 2nd WD Red drive that the NAS reports to be dead on a ReadyNAS Duo V2. I removed it and tested it on a PC and everything works. Checked with CrystalDiskInfo and it says the drive is ...
Before putting it in the other nas, I deleted all the previous partitions and format the drives. So the drive is for sure empty with no partitions
I suggest using Lifeguard's write zeros test (zeroing the full disk). I've found that turns up issues that the non-destructive tests miss.
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