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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...
bluewomble wrote: 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).
Just curious, what mechanism are you using to do the large file transfers?
I'm using cifs and afp shares at home but my mirrored NAS backed up 7TB via rsync and haven't had a single issue on it (same exact setup as the one that has had 3 failures, 4 Seagate drives, 2 Hitachi).
The CIFS share I use as a mount for iTunes and download TV Shows and Movies into it, the AFP mount I use for FCP editing, mostly read only as I have a local scratch disk.
Kevin
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