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Seagate ST2000DL003 3.5" Barracuda Green Hard Drive
Hi,
I am a little confused according to Netgears hardware compatibility page it states the following:
"You trust us to protect your data so we take it upon ourselves to list only drives that have passed our stringent disk qualification test. Because of that, you will not see all available drives here — rather only the ones that are proven to show acceptable reliability in our lab. That said, if you will be using the ReadyNAS in a business-critical environment, we recommend drives with Rotation Vibration Safeguard feature to provide an extra level of security from premature drive failures. These drives typically also come with a 5-year warranty which matches the 5-year warranty on your business-class ReadyNAS devices."
If this is true and its based on the quality of the disk then why is there a list one fits all, only asking as I have ordered 2 of the above drives already then realised that even though they are compatible and proven with the RNDU2000 they are not compatible with the DUO V2 that I recently bought?
As anyone had these working in a Duo V2?
Any advice appreciated, could probably send them back on delivery (on route to be at present) but it would cost me about £40 so would rather not if possible.
Thanks
I am a little confused according to Netgears hardware compatibility page it states the following:
"You trust us to protect your data so we take it upon ourselves to list only drives that have passed our stringent disk qualification test. Because of that, you will not see all available drives here — rather only the ones that are proven to show acceptable reliability in our lab. That said, if you will be using the ReadyNAS in a business-critical environment, we recommend drives with Rotation Vibration Safeguard feature to provide an extra level of security from premature drive failures. These drives typically also come with a 5-year warranty which matches the 5-year warranty on your business-class ReadyNAS devices."
If this is true and its based on the quality of the disk then why is there a list one fits all, only asking as I have ordered 2 of the above drives already then realised that even though they are compatible and proven with the RNDU2000 they are not compatible with the DUO V2 that I recently bought?
As anyone had these working in a Duo V2?
Any advice appreciated, could probably send them back on delivery (on route to be at present) but it would cost me about £40 so would rather not if possible.
Thanks
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- Been using them in my Duo v2 and work fine for me as far as I can tell from my use so far.
However that is certainly not definitive and if you have issues with these drives support can and will deny support.
NetGear extensively tests drives. This takes time and is quite expensive. So one can conclude that one of the following is true:
1. Disk failed testing and is no longer being tested.
2. Disk failed testing and issues are being addressed.
3. Disk is currently being tested and no issues have been encountered yet.
4. NetGear has not tested this disk
It doesn't matter which of these is true. NetGear can and will deny support if you have issues.
The Duo v2 (RND2000-200 - arm ReadyNAS running RAIDiator 5.3.x) has very different hardware to the Ultra 2 (RNDU2000 - x86 ReadyNAS running RAIDiator 4.2.x) and also the Duo v1 (RND2000-100 - Sparc ReadyNAS running RAIDiator 4.1.x) - Thanks for your quick reply.
How long have you had them running in the Duo? - Months
- I'm currently using these (2x ST2000DL003-9VT166) in my new Duo v2 and have been up and runnning for a week now... There were previously in my Duo v1, where they'd been running fine for about 10 months. I did have some fun getting them initially working in the Duo v2, but after the Factory Reset all was ok... I notice that the 1.5TB version of the drive is listed in the HCl for the Duo v2, hopefully the 2TB version will be aded shortly?
- Spoke too soon... On rebooting/restarting the Duo V2 and doing a Volume Scan - I keep getting 'Volume scan found and corrected errors. (ReadyNAS-Duo)' notification emails, with errors like Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 16318580, i_blocks is 689776, should be 689784. Fix? yes. The email lists up to a dozen or so i_blocks eorrors like this, if I don't add any further data to the NAS the next restart is OK, but if I add more data I get similar volume scan messages... - I just picked up a NV+ v2 and also just realized that these drives were not on the official list for this system (even though they are there for the original NV+). I'm wondering if I should return the drives for ones on the list, or take a chance... Not a lot of community data yet...
-lj - Now I'm confused - just went out and bought two brand new WD 2TB drives that are on the HCL (WD20EARX), rebuilt (Factory Default, etc) the ReadyNAS Duo V2 (running arm 5.3.2) - and after copying over about 60Gb of data thought I'd do a Restart with a Volume Scan - Here's what I got back (notification email):
Subject: Volume scan found and corrected errors. (ReadyNAS-Duo)
***** File system check performed at Fri Jan 6 23:21:40 WET 2012 *****
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 26152714, i_blocks is 517240, should be 517248. Fix? yes
Inode 26152809, i_blocks is 594336, should be 594344. Fix? yes
Inode 26153281, i_blocks is 691104, should be 691112. Fix? yes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/mapper/c-c: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/mapper/c-c: 9267/30285824 files (1.3% non-contiguous), 13998799/484573184 blocks
Is this something to be worried about, or am I just being paranoid??? - I don't know, but I'd suspect your Duo if you're getting the same problems with different drives...
I've got my NV+ v2 with two of these drives installed in a RAID 0 configuration (no mirroring) and copied over several hundred GB of data using Time Machine, rebooted and did a volume scan which came back with no errors. Next test is to copy over some data by dragging/dropping, the reboot and volume scan again...
EDIT [01/07/2012] Just copied about 60GB over to a share on the NV+ v2 and did a reboot/volume scan and no errors reported...
-lj
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