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David_H
May 31, 2017Tutor
ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition Disk Overheating
Hi, I have a 6 disk ReadyNas Pro Busdiness Edition [X-RAID2] (not sure of the exact model number) with firmware RAIDiator 4.2.28. Last night I recieved a notification that disk 5 had exceed...
- Jun 01, 2017
Well if you power down, remove the disk and hook it up to a PC you should be able to see if the PC's reporting any issues with the disk.
If you power down, remove your disks (label order) and put a scratch disk (must not be from your array) in that slot do you get reports of temperature issues with just that disk installed?
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David_H
Jun 01, 2017Tutor
Thanks everyone for the suggestions,
I removed the drive and connected it up to my PC to check the temperature. I couldn't get Seatools to run, but found another tool online that had similar functionality, and it reported the drive temperature as 89 C, so it looks like in fact the sensor in the drive is faulty. I'll follow up with Seagate about the RMA.
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