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carlpea
Mar 28, 2026Tutor
Drive four premature failure in two Ready NAS devices - Coincidence?
Hi, I've got a ReadyNAS 426 and ReadyNas 516. All six drives in each device the same size/model, however, one contained 6 x 10TB and the other 6 x 18TB. Both had a failure on drive four a...
Sandshark
Mar 29, 2026Sensei
The middle (2-5) drives do tend to get just a bit warmer, but not enough to make a difference. But do check that yours are not way hotter, which may indicate an air circulation issue. If you use a single RAID, then none work more than another. If you use more then one volume, then you control which volume(s), and thus drive(s), are used more
carlpea
Mar 29, 2026Tutor
Hi,
All drives are a few degrees from each other, and one RAID 5 (X-RAID) volume per NAS.
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