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ReadyNAS 716X "Data Dead" after resync and replacement Seagate 4TB disk not being recognized
I have a ReadyNAS 716X running OS 6.10.3 About a month ago, I got a “Data Degraded” error and logs indicated Disk 4 had failed. I replaced Disk 4 with a new Seagate 4TB ST4000NM0033 and the RAID...
The HP branded drive should have worked fine unless it also used 520 byte sectors (which I am not aware any HP product uses). It likely had some HP formatting already and just needed to be formatted or possibly zeroed on a PC. Netgear support certainly should have known that. Yeah, it's not on the compatibility list per se, but it doesn't seem like they even tried.
As far as recovering the data, you are best off with Netgear support when a second drive fails. If it's still healthy enough to clone to another drive, there may be some hope for solutions like ReclaiMe, but it's also expensive and you need a way to connect all the drives to a PC
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