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Drive four premature failure in two Ready NAS devices - Coincidence?
Hi, I've got a ReadyNAS 426 and ReadyNas 516. All six drives in each device the same size/model, however, one contained 6 x 10TB and the other 6 x 18TB. Both had a failure on drive four a...
The middle (2-5) drives do tend to get just a bit warmer, but not enough to make a difference. But do check that yours are not way hotter, which may indicate an air circulation issue. If you use a single RAID, then none work more than another. If you use more then one volume, then you control which volume(s), and thus drive(s), are used more
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All drives are a few degrees from each other, and one RAID 5 (X-RAID) volume per NAS.
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