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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...
For 3TB disks I have had very good service from 4 Hitachi HDS5C3030ALA630 drives (2 each in 2 NVX units, plus 2x1TB Seagates in each as well). These are listed on most websites as PN 0S03230 as well as PN 0F12460 and PN 0S03228 (listed as the retail version). If you go to the Newegg website and click on the images of the drive and zoom in on the labels, you will see they are the same model. (Normal search only brings up 0S03230 and 0F12460, but if you enter "Hitachi 0S03228" in the search box it will show up and is in stock. The four I got from Newegg are PN 0S03230 and I also got one from Amazon. (One of the 5 is a spare still in the sealed static bag) Hitachi uses an opaque silver static bag so you cannot read the drive label until you open the sealed bag. On the label on the bag, only the PN appears, on the drive label, the model number but not the PN appears.
Mine have been in service for about 6 or 7 months without problems and the 1TB Seagates have been in service for 18 months, but one is now throwing ATA errors in the smart info, although I have had no data problems.
FWIW I am running 4.2.17 on both units and have since about a month after it's release. NAS2 (NVX Pioneer) is the nightly backup of NAS1 (NVX Business Edition) which is my server. I have a home network consisting normally of 2 Win 7 Custom built desktops (me) and 1 Win 7 HP laptop. All three are running 64bit Home Premium. From time to time an old (2004) HP laptop with XP Home and an old (2003) HP D530 desktop with XP Pro are also on the network for special purposes only.
Mine have been in service for about 6 or 7 months without problems and the 1TB Seagates have been in service for 18 months, but one is now throwing ATA errors in the smart info, although I have had no data problems.
FWIW I am running 4.2.17 on both units and have since about a month after it's release. NAS2 (NVX Pioneer) is the nightly backup of NAS1 (NVX Business Edition) which is my server. I have a home network consisting normally of 2 Win 7 Custom built desktops (me) and 1 Win 7 HP laptop. All three are running 64bit Home Premium. From time to time an old (2004) HP laptop with XP Home and an old (2003) HP D530 desktop with XP Pro are also on the network for special purposes only.
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