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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...
ferg wrote: I've just had an additional drive failed when I had to poweroff due to a power cut. I have a raid6 Pro with 4 of these ST2000DL003 drives and 2 of a different type. The unit was previously in a single failed drive state which I've been talking to Support about. When booted back up the "failed disc" started resynching. It reached 65% and then froze. I cannot access the unit. RAIDar now indicates that two drives have failed. Frontview is unreachable. Note that the additional failed drive is also a ST2000DL003.
Of these four drives each one has been RMA'ed at least once (some twice). I must be into double figures of disc failures.
The scariest post I've read in quite a long time.
I'm in the ridiculous position of trying not to use data on my ReadyNAS in case I get a double failure too. And with disks not yet coming down in price it's as if if I can hear a bomb ticking ...
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