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Warning: WD20EADS Unreliable
I know that the WD 2TB EADS drive is listed on the compatibility list, but after just having multiple simultaneous drive failures with 3 month old drives I would caution anyone against using these. I ...
mdgm wrote: merc4a2, your running a very different NAS. For one thing NetGear recommends enterprise disks for rackmount devices not cheap green disks. The WD20EADS is not on the compatibility list for the 1100. The 1100 is a Sparc ReadyNAS and so runs different firmware to the Ultra.
What version of RAIDiator firmware are you running on your 1100 and if you got SMART errors before the disk failures what were they?
I have the latest firmware, and did not capture any SMART errors before the failures. I realize it's not the best drive to use. When I bought the drives, I was actually planning on buying an Ultra, but the wife shot that upgrade down and I didn't think to check the different HCL for the 1100. The 1100 was previously a remote backup location, but I'm now just using it for media storage, so price per GB was my primary driver over reliability.
After testing one drive is completely dead, so once I get a replacement I'll make BigBearf's recommended config changes and start over.
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