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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...
Chris-Boston wrote: I have two of these coming in from Amazon today - the 2TBs, do you guys think I should just turn them around and grab some others? Not bother even trying?
The ST2000DL003-9VT166 drives are not reliable in ReadyNAS systems, at least with firmware CC32. No one has been able to find newer firmware to try to establish whether that would fix them. In the absence of official word from either Seagate or Netgear/ReadyNAS I would not use these drives.
As you can see from posts from 'beisser' there is hope on the horizon. He is asking us to be patient. But I've been patient for 9+ months now and there have been many many complaints in this forum from users over this period. I don't know how much longer we have to be patient... tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
DAK
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