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SOS code on ReadyNAS Duo RND2000 V2
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If you formatted the drives on a PC as GPT and it created a "protective system partition", your NAS cannot delete that. Diskpart from a Windows command line will allow you to delete it. Alternately, do a quick erase with the same vendor tools StephenB is recommending for testing the drive. What the NAS wants is drives that are completely unformatted. The error message is saying that there is one that it can't read.
Sandshark wrote:
Diskpart from a Windows command line will allow you to delete it.
As will the Windows Disk Manager (GUI).
Generally I run the full vendor diags on a PC before I install new disks in the NAS. With Seatools, that includes the full read test and the full write-zeros test.
Unfortunately WD's dashboard software doesn't include the write-zeros test. Which tilts me a bit towards Seagate drives. Some of my out-of-the-box disks have passed the read test, but failed the write test (and in some cases they've failed the read test but passed the write test).
As I said above, avoid SMR drives, and make sure your disks are no larger than 2 TB.
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