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Seagate ST31500341AS - Have others seen a lot of failures?
I have a readynas pro with 4x ST31500341AS. I've returned 3 drives for replacement, one immediately, two in the past year, and yet another with an increasing sector reallocation count. I'm considering replacing these drives since they've been so failure prone.
The advice form macsales.com (a very reputable seller) is that these drives fail at a terribly high rate in RAID configurations. I'm hoping to confirm or deny this with the friendly readynas users.
thanks
The advice form macsales.com (a very reputable seller) is that these drives fail at a terribly high rate in RAID configurations. I'm hoping to confirm or deny this with the friendly readynas users.
thanks
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- All you will likely get from this forum is anecdotal information.
eg I have 8 of these drives across 2 NAS - other than a few with very low (single digit) Reallocated Sectors, I've been running with then for between 1 & 2 years (didn't buy all at the same time) without incident - I have a Duo, NV+ and an Ultra4 plus with these drives and my highest count is 3 on one of my drives. Most of my drives are almost 2 years old...I had one fail right after arrival, but quickly shipped it back to Amazon. The replacement has been fine..
- I have 4 in a PRO. Some of these are refurbished (had some failures when I had them in PCs).
One has 1 reallocated sector, a second has 2 spin retries, a third has 1 reallocated sector and 6 spin retries. The fourth is totally clean. I am keeping a close eye on them, and if any of them gets much worse I will replace them with something else (probably a 3 TB drive).
The PRO is regularly backed up - of course you should not depend on RAID alone, no matter what drives you use.
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