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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...
He says that Engineering say that the problem is with Seagate, not Netgear. And Netgear may take the drive off the HCL if Seagate don't solve ...
Puts me in a hard place if this is true. Another comment earlier stated that there is a fix planned for Q1 2012. I have four of these drives. Only two installed--afraid to pursue replacing older/smaller drives with these.
However a tech did refer to a link to a discussion on Seagate's user forum, but there is no official statement from seagate. And to put things into perspective, if Netgear firmware 4.2.17 doesn't fail these drives (this all started with 4.2.19 and above) then how is it the drive's fault exactly? I put 4.2.17 back on and the drives lasted two months...only when I updated again to the release of 4.2.19 will the drive fail in a few days(4.2.18 actually worked but was retracted because of a security bug with AFP?).
I can't ship these drives back to anyone and ask for a replacement or refund, so I'm committed. I really hope Negear's final position is to point fingers and walk away from this--but they should update their HCL so others won't follow this disaster as we have.
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