Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

phrozen wrote:
If you have any reallocated sectors, then the pausing could be the usual click death. When the drives run over a bad sector, sometimes they retry the read or write over and over again for long enough to stall the OS.

Yeah, the more I thought about it last night, the more I decided I'd swap it out for the spare I bought...Just waiting for a large batch of copying to finish. Hopefully, that'll help things.

phrozen wrote:
The other possibility is that the SD18 firmware doesn't actually fix the problem, like the 1A firmware. So, maybe the seagate support person mentioned in the previous post was wrong. Maybe the SD18/19 firmwares are not the same as the SD1A firmware...

Thought about this, too. I'm going to call seagate tomorrow first thing and get a second opinion. Will see if I can get the same answer without leading them to it...and will keep the 'well, if SD18 is the latest, why is SD19 now available as well?' - maybe that gets me something I can flash.

Good news is that I still have my original 4x750s set aside plus, the original 2TB copied on to four other 750s on my network...really just playing with it at this point and still not in any great need of rushing through things.

phrozen wrote:
Actually, I forget. Does the ReadyNAS ask you if you want to expand the array after you put in 4 larger disks? Or does it just automatically do it?

Not sure, have never done expansion... sorry :(