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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...
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
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
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