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bluewomble
Mar 13, 2011Aspirant
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...
opt2bout
Dec 03, 2011Aspirant
I'm on day 2 with the new 4.2.20-T15 so its been running 24 hours now. But in the past it would always take a couple of days before it would fail. The problem appears to be with the new firmware and these specific drives from Seagate. If you downgrade to 4.2.17 you won't have the problems (I ran two full months with 4.2.17 and two these drives with no issues at all). Of course if you have any computers that are running Mac OS X Lion, you can't do that. They are working on trying to figure out why the combination of the newer firmware is failing these drives.
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