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"Found Bad Disk" Recovery
I have an NV+ with 4.1.8. It's been running for several years. Recently it refused to boot with the message "found bad disk" on the LCD. Based on info from searching around in the forum, I pulled d...
menlomike386
Good to hear Seatools helped you boot the system. :thumbsup:
If you have trouble copying files off the NAS, and those files are important to you, I still highly recommend Spinrite.
Now, before you begin using your NAS again, what is your plan for disks? Since 3 of your 4 Seagate Barracuda Green disks are considered bad by Seatools, I'm thinking you need to investigate further before relying on these disks. Did your 4 disks have the latest firmware? See here. http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/s ... cId=218171
If the firmware looks OK, do you have any idea why 3 of the 4 disks could be bad? Was the NAS "manhandled" while powered on? Is there sufficient airflow (check for NAS air vents clogged with dust)?
I had a business colleague who had several disks fails in his Readynas over the course of a year. Upon further investigation we found that the nighttime office cleaners were picking it up by the handle and cleaning the desk just about every night. They were obviously "manhandling" it. Since we ceased that behavior not a single disk failed.
If your disks are still under warranty I suppose you could get refurbs from Seagate. I've had some real odd experiences with Seagate over the last couple of years with refurbs. I have had 4 occasions where ES and ES.2 disks needed to be exchanged. In all four cases the first refurb sent was unacceptable, meaning they were found to have serious SMART errors after one round of pre-testing. One of the refurbs sent even had a dent in the cover and was all scratched up like someone dragged it across the floor. All were labeled Seagate re-certified and shipped from Jabil in Texas. I'm suspecting their recertification criteria has changed over the years as I never used to have such issues with them.
May I recommend you consider Enterprise disks? The only trouble is that timing is bad. With the floods in Thailand disk prices are through the roof and likely won't come down until Summer. If I had to recommend a consumer 2TB disk it would be the HGST 7K3000.
Good to hear Seatools helped you boot the system. :thumbsup:
If you have trouble copying files off the NAS, and those files are important to you, I still highly recommend Spinrite.
Now, before you begin using your NAS again, what is your plan for disks? Since 3 of your 4 Seagate Barracuda Green disks are considered bad by Seatools, I'm thinking you need to investigate further before relying on these disks. Did your 4 disks have the latest firmware? See here. http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/s ... cId=218171
If the firmware looks OK, do you have any idea why 3 of the 4 disks could be bad? Was the NAS "manhandled" while powered on? Is there sufficient airflow (check for NAS air vents clogged with dust)?
I had a business colleague who had several disks fails in his Readynas over the course of a year. Upon further investigation we found that the nighttime office cleaners were picking it up by the handle and cleaning the desk just about every night. They were obviously "manhandling" it. Since we ceased that behavior not a single disk failed.
If your disks are still under warranty I suppose you could get refurbs from Seagate. I've had some real odd experiences with Seagate over the last couple of years with refurbs. I have had 4 occasions where ES and ES.2 disks needed to be exchanged. In all four cases the first refurb sent was unacceptable, meaning they were found to have serious SMART errors after one round of pre-testing. One of the refurbs sent even had a dent in the cover and was all scratched up like someone dragged it across the floor. All were labeled Seagate re-certified and shipped from Jabil in Texas. I'm suspecting their recertification criteria has changed over the years as I never used to have such issues with them.
May I recommend you consider Enterprise disks? The only trouble is that timing is bad. With the floods in Thailand disk prices are through the roof and likely won't come down until Summer. If I had to recommend a consumer 2TB disk it would be the HGST 7K3000.
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