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Drive DEAD ?? Drive or readynas
Hi, I have a readynas Ultra 2 with 2 3tb Western digital hard drives, last night the readynas reported one of the drives were dead. I have run the drive through western digitals own software (E...
You'll never know unless you enter a support case at support.netgear.com That might not be free (depending on the warranty status).
paulies wrote: Could the readynas guys fix this or am I just getting another drive ?
My fear would be that the new drive will fail in the same way. If the 4 TB is not on the HCL for the ultra, that will shut the support door.
One thing you might try is using the write zeros test in lifeguard (the fast one). That would wipe the partitions. Then reinsert the drive with the NAS running, and see what happens.
Another thing you could try is to shutdown the NAS and unplug it for a bit. Sometimes that resolves low-level bios glitches.
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