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AbbottWins
Apr 25, 2013Follower
Disc errors, how do I know if a disc is bad?
Hi all, I am having problems with my NV+ v2, I cannot write large files to it, and by large I mean >1Gig. When I try doing this the action times out. While looking into this a little more I have ...
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 27, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
You could try hooking up the USB disk to your PC and seeing if you can use a utility to check the SMART stats.
Or if you are comfortable with SSH you could check the SMART stats of the USB disk while it is still connected to the NAS using the smartctl command
Or if you are comfortable with SSH you could check the SMART stats of the USB disk while it is still connected to the NAS using the smartctl command
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