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Thanks for the safety-options!
Since this forum is primarily used to ask questions and complain about things that don't work, I thought it would be nice to place a big thank you to NetGear for putting various safety-options inside their NAS products.
Yesterday I added a cheapo Japanese harddisk to my NAS that I removed from some obscure unused harddisk recorder. It seemed to work okay, although being a little loud compared to other disks.
This morning I found my NAS to be shut down. After booting it up again and having a look at the logfile, I found the reason for this automatic shutdown. Apparently the newly added disk got to a temperature that was considered to be unsafe and the NAS decided to shut itself down to prevent hardware damage (or maybe even setting things on fire, I don't know how hot faulty disks can get).
So thanks a lot NetGear, for making the ReadyNAS range a reliable and safe product!
Yesterday I added a cheapo Japanese harddisk to my NAS that I removed from some obscure unused harddisk recorder. It seemed to work okay, although being a little loud compared to other disks.
This morning I found my NAS to be shut down. After booting it up again and having a look at the logfile, I found the reason for this automatic shutdown. Apparently the newly added disk got to a temperature that was considered to be unsafe and the NAS decided to shut itself down to prevent hardware damage (or maybe even setting things on fire, I don't know how hot faulty disks can get).
So thanks a lot NetGear, for making the ReadyNAS range a reliable and safe product!
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- hmmm quite a hot harddrive you have there.
two possible reasons for this obviously wrong info.
1. the harddrive records/gives wrong information in its smart info.
2. the software reading the smart info from the disks has a bug.
most likely its option 1. what type of harddrive gave you that kind of temperature reading? - (Sorry for the late reply, I just noticed this topic because my server gave me a missing file warning. Updated the location of the screenshot.)
Yes, I realize the reading are a bit high, but I later connected the harddisk to an external power-supply and have it spin around a bit and it actually did get extremely hot. Almost burned my fingertips when disconnecting it later.
It was a ExcelStor Jupiter 160GB drive that came from some extremely cheapo crap harddisk video-recorder.
This is the label from the harddisk:
[Edit: resized the photo to fit in this board]
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