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ST2000DL003 Barracuda - 2TB
Has anyone used this drive yet? Any comments? I might order some for my NV+. TIA. :D
I bought two of these drives for a new Ultra 4+ in Dec 2011. They were cheap, green, from a reputable manufacturer and on the Hardware Compatibility List...
They ran fine for a month or so but really only used for music streaming for a Sonos system. I then bought another 2 in Jan 2012 to fill the unit and allow me to store all my DVD's, Photo's, Home Movies and PC/Mac backups on it.
While installing the second pair of drives, I had a 'disk failure detected' during the expansion process (X-RAID2). After raising a thread elsewhere on the forum and a ticket with Netgear to ask for help, I found that a factory reset followed by a data restore from backup was needed to get me up and running. The drive reported as dead miraculously came alive and all seemed well.
Roll forward to today (Mar 2012) and after daily use (but not intensive use by any means), I have a different drive reported as failed. My volume is therefore not protected but data is still accessible (incremental USB backup running as I write this). If another drive goes, I'll be neck deep in the smelly stuff.
While looking on the Forums to solve my expansion problem in January, I came across lots of reports of problems with these drives in various models of ReadyNAS. Although similar, my situation at the time was not identical. Today, however, I am a full member of the 'DO NOT BUY SEAGATE ST2000DL003 DRIVES FOR YOUR READYNAS' club.
I will be researching a replacement and will not base my decision on cost.
For those interested, here is the full model number and firmware version of the drives I bought: -
They ran fine for a month or so but really only used for music streaming for a Sonos system. I then bought another 2 in Jan 2012 to fill the unit and allow me to store all my DVD's, Photo's, Home Movies and PC/Mac backups on it.
While installing the second pair of drives, I had a 'disk failure detected' during the expansion process (X-RAID2). After raising a thread elsewhere on the forum and a ticket with Netgear to ask for help, I found that a factory reset followed by a data restore from backup was needed to get me up and running. The drive reported as dead miraculously came alive and all seemed well.
Roll forward to today (Mar 2012) and after daily use (but not intensive use by any means), I have a different drive reported as failed. My volume is therefore not protected but data is still accessible (incremental USB backup running as I write this). If another drive goes, I'll be neck deep in the smelly stuff.
While looking on the Forums to solve my expansion problem in January, I came across lots of reports of problems with these drives in various models of ReadyNAS. Although similar, my situation at the time was not identical. Today, however, I am a full member of the 'DO NOT BUY SEAGATE ST2000DL003 DRIVES FOR YOUR READYNAS' club.
I will be researching a replacement and will not base my decision on cost.
For those interested, here is the full model number and firmware version of the drives I bought: -
Model: ST2000DL003-9VT166
Firmware: CC3C
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