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Noisy Seagate Ironwolf 6TB drives
I recently bought my 4th ReadyNAS box (a 524) after having three older models on OS 4.2.30. I installed Seagate Ironwolf 6TB drives in the 524 but I am getting a lot of noise from the drives - parti...
All drives have firmware SC61 and are Model ST6000VN0041-2EL11C
Can you send me your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?
Logs and audio recordings of noise submitted
You might also contact Seagate. There was a similar noise issue reported with the Ironwolf 8 TB drives, and Seagate provided a drive firmware upgrade.
I bought (4) new Western Digital Red 6 TB Drives and I swapped them out one at a time and let the 524 resync after each disk (just finished this morning). There is now no discernable additional noise from the box at all either during disk spin-up or operation. I was in touch with seagate and hopefully with this information, they'll replace the ironwolf drives.
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