Newegg has Western Digital Red Drives in Stock

Hi fellow Duo V1 owners,

I have great news. Today, it was cold and rainy here on the East coast so I had some time to install my new WD 2TB Red drive in my Duo V1.

The Duo had one, smaller Seagate drive in it and was running RAIDiator V 4.1.6. So, the first thing I did was upgrade RAIDiator to V 4.1.10 which went off without a hitch.

Then, I powered it down. Removed the Seagate drive and installed one WD Red drive. Held the reset button until the 2 drive LEDs blinked 2 times to force a factory reset.

Fired up RAIDar, it prompted to click Setup, selected X-Raid and watched the Duo build the volume. It went pretty quickly, rebooted itself and was it was as happy as a lark. I renamed it, setup Alerts and wrote about 1 GB to it from Windows 7. It seems to be running just fine. Here is the SMART data:

Model: WDC WD20EFRX-68AX9N0
Serial: WD-WMC300xxxxxx
Firmware: 80.00A80

SMART Attribute:

Raw Read Error Rate 0
Spin Up Time 0
Start Stop Count 2
Reallocated Sector Count 0
Seek Error Rate 0
Power On Hours 4
Spin Retry Count 0
Calibration Retry Count 0
Power Cycle Count 2
Power-Off Retract Count 1
Load Cycle Count 0
Temperature Celsius 33 (= 91 degrees F)
Reallocated Event Count 0
Current Pending Sector 0
Offline Uncorrectable 0
UDMA CRC Error Count 0
Multi Zone Error Rate 0
ATA Error Count 0

Extended Attribute:

Hot-add events 0
Hot-remove events 0
Lp stat events 5
Power glitches 0
Hard disk resets 0
Retries 0
Repaired sectors 0

Later this week, I will hot add the second 2TB drive and let it sync. Hoping it will be rock solid.

Film at eleven, John.