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TeknoJnky
Oct 31, 2011Hero
Seagate ST4000DX000-1C5160 [3726 GB] 4TB
firmware cc42 date 12047 dom 7/2011 bare drive pulled from usb3 external @ http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent ... 914&sr=8-1 single drive, boot menu factory defaulted, all frontview default...
mdgm-ntgr
Dec 29, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
If using single-redundancy and you remove a disk you array will be degraded. Adding a new disk puts heavy stress on all disks, so if you do this process repeatedly and one of the disks you happen to not replace or get to replacing last is failing you can have a disk failure at a bad moment (e.g. during a resync). Backups are very important. As is testing the existing disks (e.g. using "Disk Test"' boot option)
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