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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...
Yes, it does seem a problem with these drives specifically.
I've had 3 'failures', all while doing large file transfers.
Since then , I have run the ReadyNAS's own extended disk test and run the SeaTools long drive test on all 6 drives... no problems have yet been found with _any_ of the disks.
I've done an OS reinstall at the request of the Netgear support guys and since then (touch wood) everything has been running normally... I might try doing some more large file transfers to see if I can stress the system though.
These don't feel like normal disk failures to me... feels more like a firmware / software bug in either the disks or the NAS (or the combination of the two).
I've had 3 'failures', all while doing large file transfers.
Since then , I have run the ReadyNAS's own extended disk test and run the SeaTools long drive test on all 6 drives... no problems have yet been found with _any_ of the disks.
I've done an OS reinstall at the request of the Netgear support guys and since then (touch wood) everything has been running normally... I might try doing some more large file transfers to see if I can stress the system though.
These don't feel like normal disk failures to me... feels more like a firmware / software bug in either the disks or the NAS (or the combination of the two).
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