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WD20EARS just added on the official HCL - mistake and issues
The official HCL has (quietly !) been updated for Sparc based machines with a 2TB WD desktop class drive: the WD20EARS (http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=82). This is in principle good news as the WD20...
Just wanted to post my progress thus far.
I have two brand new 2TB EARS drives. I downloaded the WDIDLE3 utility, powered down my computer, opened my computer case, disconnected existing drives and hooked up one EARS, ran the utility with the /S300 extension and it registered the change. Repeated with the 2nd drive. Then installed one drive in the NV+ and ran through the setup wizard and downloaded the 4.1.7 beta firmware. The drive had 12 SMART errors at this point but no increase over the next few hours. Once everything was done initializing I powered the NV+ down and inserted the 2nd drive. It started the sync process and that's where I left it last night. Will post LCC and SMART errors in the next few days, but so far so good.
Thanks again to CommanderQ.
I have two brand new 2TB EARS drives. I downloaded the WDIDLE3 utility, powered down my computer, opened my computer case, disconnected existing drives and hooked up one EARS, ran the utility with the /S300 extension and it registered the change. Repeated with the 2nd drive. Then installed one drive in the NV+ and ran through the setup wizard and downloaded the 4.1.7 beta firmware. The drive had 12 SMART errors at this point but no increase over the next few hours. Once everything was done initializing I powered the NV+ down and inserted the 2nd drive. It started the sync process and that's where I left it last night. Will post LCC and SMART errors in the next few days, but so far so good.
Thanks again to CommanderQ.
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