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toto4
Jun 05, 2012Aspirant
Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT166
All, I have a readynas Ultra 4 with (3) 2TB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT166 -302 drives in it. I have firmware CC3C that came with the drives. I have read the issues people have had with these drives. I...
stannenb
Jun 26, 2012Aspirant
I decided to do a warranty return of a couple of disks that had failed out of my ReadyNAS just to see what happened.
Seagate is, at the moment, out of stock of this model disk drive, with no expected ship date.
So, at this point, I have a bunch of disks that "fail" regularly and were made, retroactively, incompatible with my ReadyNAS and no clear path to make them compatible.
This is rather unfortunate and raises questions, to me, about what sort of testing is done to include a disk on the HCL and the commitment there is to standing behind past assertions of compatibility.
Seagate is, at the moment, out of stock of this model disk drive, with no expected ship date.
So, at this point, I have a bunch of disks that "fail" regularly and were made, retroactively, incompatible with my ReadyNAS and no clear path to make them compatible.
This is rather unfortunate and raises questions, to me, about what sort of testing is done to include a disk on the HCL and the commitment there is to standing behind past assertions of compatibility.
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