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Disk Failure Detected...
I've recently purchased a ReadyNAS Ultra 6 along with 6 2 Tb Seagate ST2000DL003 disks (which are on the HCL). I've set up the NAS in a dual redundancy X-RAID2 configuration and have starting copyi...
I'd buy the perspective that those with issues in this thread are just seeing the odd bad disk here or there, but the full story seems to show otherwise: disks aren't actually bad, but are errantly being flagged as bad for some reason. Sounds like a bug to me, at the OS or FW level. My next steps is likely to be like CitizenPlain's latest post: run a full (perhaps overkill considering the downtime it requires!) disk-check from the boot menu. I bet there will be no issues found. Then what? Wait until the next likely false-positive drive failure?
I run an R&D lab datacenter with hundreds of SATA, SCSI, and FC hard-drives. Drives do die. This issue sniffs of a code bug somewhere to me.
I run an R&D lab datacenter with hundreds of SATA, SCSI, and FC hard-drives. Drives do die. This issue sniffs of a code bug somewhere to me.
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