ST2000DL003 Barracuda - 2TB

I am with you 100% on this. I bought a new Pro 6 with 6 of these drives. I've had to RMA 4 (or 5) of them now. However, I've had far more disc failures where the Readynas marks the drives as dead. Readynas Support have been helpful in that they've managed to coax these discs to life after they are marked as dead. Although they'd not been able to do much more. I guess that it was a mistake that this drive ever made it to the HCL, but I think the real fault must lie with Seagate for selling such a faulty drive and even worse not fixing this with a firmware update, or even acknowledging the problem.

I've replaced two of the drives with enterprise class drives and as soon as disc drives prices drop again I'll be replacing the other four. Until then the unti is surviving with all high disc activity curtailed. For example Time Machine will cause a drive to fail within minutes.