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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...
I just began the process of adding my WD20EARS earlier tonight and all looks well. Three drives are in (I followed Commander's exacting steps above, and I'm using the same drives as him, with the beta firmware) and everything looks great thus far. 3.6tb available space. The third disk is resyncing and I'm copying data back via USB. It would probably have been advisable to wait on restoring data back until the resync was finished, but I'm too lazy to stop it now, so oh well.
Overall, I think I'm getting better speed with these disks than I did with four of the stock 500gb Seagates (8mb cache) that came with the unit. I'm optimistic that all will work out for the best with these new drives. I say keep yours, upgrade to the beta firmware, perform a reset, and try again. Just my opinion..
-Jordan
Overall, I think I'm getting better speed with these disks than I did with four of the stock 500gb Seagates (8mb cache) that came with the unit. I'm optimistic that all will work out for the best with these new drives. I say keep yours, upgrade to the beta firmware, perform a reset, and try again. Just my opinion..
-Jordan
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