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New disk failed after sync. How do I recover?
ReadyNAS NV+ I had 3 1TB disks and was doing an upgrade to 3 2TB disks. Over 2 days, I replaced a disk a night, letting it sync overnight. Last night I replaced the final 1TB drive. Eight hou...
With Seagate the full model name includes the part after the dash (e.g., ST2000DM001-9YN164). Drives with different suffixes are not the same (can have different number of platters, require different firmware, etc).
If you can easily exchange the drive (with the seller), then there probably is no reason to run seatools. But if you can only RMA it to seagate, you still might want to.
As far as other options, I wouldn't get use a "green" drive. I'd get either an ST2000VN000 or a WD20EFRX. Unfortunately neither are on the compatibility list. Personally I'd get them anyway.
With the Seagate (ST2000VN000) the sector count might not match what you have now (assuming you have 2 TB drives already). If so, you might need to do a factory reset and restore from backup.
With the WDC, you should look at the load cycle counts (one of the SMART stats) after install. If they continually increase, you might want to reset the head parking threshold.
If you can easily exchange the drive (with the seller), then there probably is no reason to run seatools. But if you can only RMA it to seagate, you still might want to.
As far as other options, I wouldn't get use a "green" drive. I'd get either an ST2000VN000 or a WD20EFRX. Unfortunately neither are on the compatibility list. Personally I'd get them anyway.
With the Seagate (ST2000VN000) the sector count might not match what you have now (assuming you have 2 TB drives already). If so, you might need to do a factory reset and restore from backup.
With the WDC, you should look at the load cycle counts (one of the SMART stats) after install. If they continually increase, you might want to reset the head parking threshold.
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