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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...
Consider me yet another victim of this issue. I strongly agree with paulm2008. What does everyone here have in common?
1. A ReadyNas
2. Seagate hard disks
I have gone through a lot with this problem. First I was having the problem with just one drive, same thing as mentioned above periodic clunking and clicking which would cause screen freezing of the movie that the Nas was streaming. I also get a high pitch wine along with the clicking and clunking. I thought it was a failing drive so I started transferring the data to my PC after the ReadyNas marked one drive in channel 2 as dead (I was able to transfer 300GB out of 4TB before the failure). So I took the "failing" drive out and got it ready to send back to Seagate. As part of the return process Seagate has you run diagnostics with their "Seatools" application. My "failing" Seagate drive passed every single diagnostic, and behaved perfectly as expected while attached to my PC. I have since re-formatted both drives with X-Raid (I was using a Raid 0 because I use my ReadyNas Duo as a media streaming device).
Now, both of my drives are clicking, clunking with the high pitch wine. I believe this is some sort of compatibility issue with the ReadyNas and Seagate hard drives. I think Netgear needs to figure this out, or take Seagate drives off the compatibility list. Going forward, I'll be buying Western Digital drives for my ReadyNas.
1. A ReadyNas
2. Seagate hard disks
I have gone through a lot with this problem. First I was having the problem with just one drive, same thing as mentioned above periodic clunking and clicking which would cause screen freezing of the movie that the Nas was streaming. I also get a high pitch wine along with the clicking and clunking. I thought it was a failing drive so I started transferring the data to my PC after the ReadyNas marked one drive in channel 2 as dead (I was able to transfer 300GB out of 4TB before the failure). So I took the "failing" drive out and got it ready to send back to Seagate. As part of the return process Seagate has you run diagnostics with their "Seatools" application. My "failing" Seagate drive passed every single diagnostic, and behaved perfectly as expected while attached to my PC. I have since re-formatted both drives with X-Raid (I was using a Raid 0 because I use my ReadyNas Duo as a media streaming device).
Now, both of my drives are clicking, clunking with the high pitch wine. I believe this is some sort of compatibility issue with the ReadyNas and Seagate hard drives. I think Netgear needs to figure this out, or take Seagate drives off the compatibility list. Going forward, I'll be buying Western Digital drives for my ReadyNas.
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