Having a hiccup with my NV+

I checked the HCL, the Caviar Green is in fact on it.

Extended tests are complete.
Disk 2 had a small number of bad sectors - so I repaired those.
I tried firing things up after that - still a no go.
My first attempt at scanning disk 3 resulted in the most serious warnings I got.
It initially failed quick and extended tests, citing too many bad sectors - I was initially excited: yay, let's just replace the drive.
Wanting to rule out a bad seating in the hard drive dock I was testing it in, I tried it in the other bay.
My second attempt at scanning disk 3 resulted in passing both tests.
Disk four passed everything uneventfully.

Firing up the NAS after all that, I was fortunate enough to access to my files again.
I'm furiously backing up GB's and GB's of data now (my own doing, I realize - I deserve this discomfort).

I realize the sage advice would be to do a factory reset, start fresh, and hopefully restore some faith in this device.
Given that it might be a few days/weeks until I round up 3.5TB worth of storage (and the time) to do the right thing - how freaked out should I be about this problem returning?

I know the core message will be "you fool, your NAS is not a backup", but if you could shed light between:
- Hard drives do this from time to time, repairing the odd bad sector is a part of disk maintenance but it's not indicative of imminent failure and repaired disks can continue in a RAID5 environment where single disk failure has been planned for.
vs
- When hard drives start to show bad sectors, it's a black hole of unpredictability. Expect problems to return in short order - time to dispose of the disk.

Much appreciated
-Berger

Yes it is on it, but it has been out of favour with users for some time.

I'd suggest that running disks with bad sectors is not a good idea, especially if they are on more than one disk.
The tolerance of most users here is 50. I don't think anyone is going to advise "repairing" sectors.

Ok, good to know.

While I have the ear of a super knowledgeable NAS team, has there been any progress towards higher capacity drives for the NV+?

If I'm starting from scratch again, my interest would be to move up to 3-4TB per disk, but I remember 2TB being the cap for this device when I started fresh last time.
Not sure if firmware updates can improve such things, just checking.

Cheers,
-Berger

2TB is still the limit for this device. See Legacy > ReadyNAS NV+ on http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20641

Our newer devices support higher capacity disks.

We have 6TB disks on the compatibility list for some of our newer device e.g. the RN314.