Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

jzeimet wrote:
I have 6 of these drives fw SD17 in a ReadyNAS Pro running V4.2.1 and - it's unbelievable - no freezing so far. But I'm also extremely interested in upgrading to a bug free firmware.

I'm curious if there's some setting or configuration that may help in not having the issue occur other than disabling the write cache. I've got 6 in a Pro in a RAID6 configuration with jumbo frames and link aggregation enabled and a share specified. I've disabled Bonjour and Apple related services. Other than that, I believe I'm at defaults. But I can not play back H.264 video or play FLAC files stored in a directory on the share without the problem occurring. I've also noticed a pause when doing some file operations. Disabling the write cache helps.

I know Seagate doesn't support these drives in anything but desktop raid (ie: not raid 5/6) but man! The price point of these drives makes it REALLY hard to spend $50+ and get less capacity. It'd be different if that $50 meant an ES 1.5TB drive but I fear Seagate would charge $100 more for that.