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Ready NAS104 - Bit rot protection - silent error
I purchased and setup a ReadyNAS 104 10 days ago and set it up with 4x4TB WD Red drives. Its running firmware 6.2.2. I then copied around 3.5TB of data (mainly media files) from old USB drives to ...
jonrico wrote:
Is it likely that these bit rot protection warnings are false positives? Any information or ideas on why they would be generated?
They may be. Did you download the logs shortly after you started getting these errors?
jonrico wrote:
Is it possible that the file was "already corrupt" (whatever that may mean) before I copied to the NAS?
In that case the checksum would have been of an already corrupt file. It is possible that the file could be corrupt before being copied to the NAS but that has nothing to do with this error.
If you compared a checksum of a copy of the file you have elsewhere and a checksum of the file on the NAS before you overwrote it you could have seen if the files matched.
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