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ultra 6 plus limited to 10 Tio on line
Expansion fails continuously with 6 hdd caviar green 3 To ; I think it is due to limitation to 16 Tio from the BIOs, but if parity disks would be managed separately, the partition should grow up beyon...
The WD30EZRX is on the HCL. As to the ICY Dock, I'm not sure which one you used or how it was connected to your PC, but generally to properly test the drives, you do need to use the testing software as written by the drive manufacturer and while the drive is attached directly to a MB SATA port, not an external adapter or enclosure connected via USB or even eSATA.
Data Lifeguard will read the parameters and test the drive using routines and tests developed by the manufacturer. While I am far more familiar with SeaTools than I am with Data Lifeguard, I do know that SeaTools will not test a drive connected via any enclosure as the electronics in the enclosure interfere with the tests. The long test on SeaTools also takes about two hours to run on a 1TB drive (I have never run it on a 3TB).
BTW - I have never had a BSOD from either Data Lifeguard or SeaTools.
While the vendors tools can in some instances "repair" a drive, most often it is simply to test the drive to determine if it has failed in some manner. In the case of SeaTools, if the Seagate drive fails the long test, you get a report that gives you a failure code that must be used when sending a drive back for replacement. Until a drive is tested with the vendor tools it is difficult to determine if it is the drive, the configuration or the NAS hardware. Testing is used to resolve the items that have not caused the problem to determine what has caused it.
Data Lifeguard will read the parameters and test the drive using routines and tests developed by the manufacturer. While I am far more familiar with SeaTools than I am with Data Lifeguard, I do know that SeaTools will not test a drive connected via any enclosure as the electronics in the enclosure interfere with the tests. The long test on SeaTools also takes about two hours to run on a 1TB drive (I have never run it on a 3TB).
BTW - I have never had a BSOD from either Data Lifeguard or SeaTools.
While the vendors tools can in some instances "repair" a drive, most often it is simply to test the drive to determine if it has failed in some manner. In the case of SeaTools, if the Seagate drive fails the long test, you get a report that gives you a failure code that must be used when sending a drive back for replacement. Until a drive is tested with the vendor tools it is difficult to determine if it is the drive, the configuration or the NAS hardware. Testing is used to resolve the items that have not caused the problem to determine what has caused it.
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