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Seagate ST31000340AS drives making click-clunk sounds
I upgraded my ReadyNAS Duo from a pair of Seagate 500GB drives to a pair of 1 TB Seagate ST31000340AS drives (listed as compatible drives on the Hardware Compatibility List: http://www.readynas.com/?p...
I had exactly the same problem. My ReadyNAS duo came with one 500GB disk. After some weeks, I ordered two Seagate ST31000340AS disks (1TB) that would be compatible with the ReadyNas.
I installed the first one next to the original 500GB disk.
Clicking-clunking noises, but appearently no real problems as the ReadyNas did not report any problem. I kind of hoped it was part of the formatting process.
After syncing, I replaced the 500GB with the second 1T drive.
The clicking noises did not disappear and I noticed that when playing music to a PC, the music stopped from time to time for a few seconds. Every few seconds, the hard drive makes the dreadful noise. The noise of a dying hard disk I think.
It is like the drive heads in the disk are completely off.
Today, I took out the first 1G that I placed and rebooted the ReadyNas. No clicks from the other 1GB drive. So it seams to me it is a hard disk problem of one disk.
I just put the problem-disk in an external hard drive casing and am now trying to format it (NTFS). The same terrible clicks occur.
I am going to send this drive back to the supplier.
I am interested to hear more experiences, it seems that are quite a few that have problems with this disk type.
I installed the first one next to the original 500GB disk.
Clicking-clunking noises, but appearently no real problems as the ReadyNas did not report any problem. I kind of hoped it was part of the formatting process.
After syncing, I replaced the 500GB with the second 1T drive.
The clicking noises did not disappear and I noticed that when playing music to a PC, the music stopped from time to time for a few seconds. Every few seconds, the hard drive makes the dreadful noise. The noise of a dying hard disk I think.
It is like the drive heads in the disk are completely off.
Today, I took out the first 1G that I placed and rebooted the ReadyNas. No clicks from the other 1GB drive. So it seams to me it is a hard disk problem of one disk.
I just put the problem-disk in an external hard drive casing and am now trying to format it (NTFS). The same terrible clicks occur.
I am going to send this drive back to the supplier.
I am interested to hear more experiences, it seems that are quite a few that have problems with this disk type.
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