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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...
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.
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