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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
Jul 09, 2012Aspirant
I understand the need for testing. Getting this done quickly is important, but being transparent about time frames is even more important.
Note: I've gone through 2 disk "failures" since my last posting on this subject. It's a good thing I went with 2 disk redundancy, otherwise I'd have lost the contents of my ReadyNAS, something that's happened once already.
Back in my professional IT life, I once went through storage problems from hell, when an array from a major vendor went through six weeks of the most bizarre and unfathomable problems. You really haven't lived until you're told that the survival of the contents of your array depends on nothing going wrong because all your redundancy has failed and you've exhausted the entire stock of drives east of the Mississsippi. My tolerance is rather high because of that experience, but please, get ths done as quickly as possible. And if you need testers, please ask. I'm willing to absorb some risk to get this over with as soon as possible.
Note: I've gone through 2 disk "failures" since my last posting on this subject. It's a good thing I went with 2 disk redundancy, otherwise I'd have lost the contents of my ReadyNAS, something that's happened once already.
Back in my professional IT life, I once went through storage problems from hell, when an array from a major vendor went through six weeks of the most bizarre and unfathomable problems. You really haven't lived until you're told that the survival of the contents of your array depends on nothing going wrong because all your redundancy has failed and you've exhausted the entire stock of drives east of the Mississsippi. My tolerance is rather high because of that experience, but please, get ths done as quickly as possible. And if you need testers, please ask. I'm willing to absorb some risk to get this over with as soon as possible.
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