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carpii
Aug 30, 2014Tutor
Drives constantly failing, different brands, all on HCL
I have three NVX ReadyNAS, and one of them seems to have a problem where any drive put into it often starts generating SMART errors after a month or two. I use RaidX I've been through 4 drives in ...
carpii
Aug 31, 2014Tutor
vandermerwe wrote: Have you tried one of the drives that has been working well in one of the other chassis?
Perhaps, assuming you have a backup, take a known working disk out of a chassis and put it into the slot you think is a problem.
Replace the disk you have removed with a known good disk.
Good idea, I'll try that
My 2nd NAS is just a backup of the first NAS, so I can just put my new drive into NAS 2, and then after NAS 2 has resynced, swap out the bad disk in NAS 1 with that one
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