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nilo_uk
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Sep 16, 2013

Symptoms of non-compatible drives?

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone knows what the typical symptoms are of using drives not on the hardware compatibility list.

Being a cheapskate, I bought a MV+ V2 without drives and installed some old ones I had lying around. It all seems to work OK - most of the time! Just occasionally will it lock-up with the display showing "Spinning down..."
If I use the latest firmware (5.3.8 ) it will lock-up within hours, with v5.3.6 it runs fine for weeks.

So, I'm guessing that it's my old drives that are causing it.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

4 Replies

  • Failures with incompatible disks vary. What drives are you using?

    Another possibility is that one of the drives is simply failing. Perhaps you should check the SMART stats.

    If the SMART stats are ok, I'd either turn off disk spindown, or downgrade to 5.3.6 and see if the lockups stop.
  • Thanks for your reply and thoughts.

    Just had a closer look at my drives - 1 Seagate (ST3500641AS) and 3 Hitachi (HDS725050KLA360). None of them show any particular errors, certainly not worsening. They are though fairly old each showing something like 55000+ power on hours.

    I like your idea of turning off the spindown feature - the power consumption will be less $ than a new set of disks!

    Cheers
  • StephenB wrote:
    Failures with incompatible disks vary. What drives are you using?

    Another possibility is that one of the drives is simply failing. Perhaps you should check the SMART stats.

    If the SMART stats are ok, I'd either turn off disk spindown, or downgrade to 5.3.6 and see if the lockups stop.


    Yet another possibility is that there is a bug in the Readynas firmware.
    I have an NV+ V2 running the latest 5.3.8 firmware with 3TB seagate drives that ARE on the compatibility list, and I'm fairly sure that when I turned on the spindown feature, when it did try to go to sleep, it would just sit there with a permanent 'spinning down' message on the display.
  • I have same problem and so does a friend with all drives on the list. Definitely a firmware problem bur despite me contacting there support several times they just don't want to do anything about it.
    They say the issue was fixed 2 or 3 firmware versions ago. Clearly Not !

    They did offer me an RMA exchange for exactly the same model, I told them what's the point, and didn't bother.

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