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ReadyNAS Ultra 6 rattling
Dear Netgear, I have been owning a ReadyNAS Ultra 6 for about 2 years, and since a couple of weeks the device is making a rattling sound all the time. I removed the side panels from the case to ch...
Note that the system won't fully boot up without drives. If you don't hear any rattle, and you have a scratch drive handy you can insert it and let the NAS start its install. (no harm is done since the OS is on the disks).
sventunus wrote: @kossboss: the logs show no anomalities, the drives look fine.
@StephenB: that's a great tip, will try that this weekend, thanks! Cannot shutdown the NAS right now as it is a production unit that has too much going on. This weekend I could test, however.
You can also power each drive separately (for instance with a USB/SATA adapter kit), and see if any of them rattle when they spin up. You might need a PC for that though (running a disk diag to generate some seeking).
The main thing to remember is that the ReadyNAS will wipe any disks you hot-insert.
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