Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

bdl99 wrote:

So I've solved one of my own problems that I hope will be useful information for others. It appears when I updated the firmware on the drives the maximum drive size was somehow set to 500Gb (searching the web it appears that I'm not the only one). I discovered this when I decided to place on of the four drive in a PC to create a backup in case the recommendation from the Jedis was to start a fresh. I downloaded http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/ and was able to set the drive max back to 1.5Tb and at least on the PC everything is fine. So I think I will need to do the same with the other drives before putting them in the ReadyNAS.

Update: I removed the first 1.5Tb disk that had initialized and sync'd but was only reported as 465Gb and used the SeaTools utility mentioned above to set to 1.5Tb max. When I returned the drive to the Readynas it proceeded to reinitialize and resync but it then correctly reported it as 1397Gb. I then replaced the second drive with one that I had already updated the firmware on and set the drive size to 1.5Tb (using SeaTools) and every thing went as expected. I am now on the 3rd disk and 50% of the way through the initialization.