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Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB
Any idea when this will be supported :-) Cliff
Well, here's my experience so far.
I bought 4 of the drives due to their cheapness (This whole issue is a bit of a blessing in disguise, since it has brought the price down quite nicely) & because the firmware fix had just come out. I received them, and they were the affected model and firmware, so I tracked down the update, installed it on all 4 drives, then began the process of installation into my NV+. I started on 27 Nov at approx 1900 local and the process ended 29 Nov at 0600 local. So 33hrs total to get to 4 tb of redundant storage. I had no errors during the process, and streaming has worked fine over the last 2 weeks (the log shows no errors from the drives in that time frame.) WRT to any performance hits, I can't really say, as I don't usually do read/write testing w/ my NAS. As long as it is fast enough to stream media and B/U my data I'm good. These drives are a little louder than the 3x 500 GB Samsungs they replaced, but I can't complain considering I have quadrupled my storage.
Cheers
Dan
I bought 4 of the drives due to their cheapness (This whole issue is a bit of a blessing in disguise, since it has brought the price down quite nicely) & because the firmware fix had just come out. I received them, and they were the affected model and firmware, so I tracked down the update, installed it on all 4 drives, then began the process of installation into my NV+. I started on 27 Nov at approx 1900 local and the process ended 29 Nov at 0600 local. So 33hrs total to get to 4 tb of redundant storage. I had no errors during the process, and streaming has worked fine over the last 2 weeks (the log shows no errors from the drives in that time frame.) WRT to any performance hits, I can't really say, as I don't usually do read/write testing w/ my NAS. As long as it is fast enough to stream media and B/U my data I'm good. These drives are a little louder than the 3x 500 GB Samsungs they replaced, but I can't complain considering I have quadrupled my storage.
Cheers
Dan
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