Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

I just don't get it, The woman won't let me buy a Pro, The Pioneer is N/A!
Today she had to miss work and take care of her father and was ticked she couldn't listen to her tunes that were/are on the old dead NT4.0 server.

Fix it, She says!
I want a Pro, I replied.
She turns and looks at me and 'Say's fix it'!
I somberly replied ok.

Just ordered 4 ST31500341AS 1.5TB, 129.99 Amazon.
And a Promise TX4 to drive them.

I'll post the fw's when I get them, it'll be a week. (FREE Ship via a slow boat)
(Proabaly another couple weeks returning for improper S&H)

So the good news is I'll have some drives when the Pioneer shows it's pretty little face!

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

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

Got my drives, and was shocked... Amazon sent them in actual HD boxes, with cutout foam and all... :)

The downside is, All 4 drives are:
PN: 9JU138-300
FW: SD17
Date: 09141
Site: TX

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

Festus Hagen, check where you amazon order came from. Mine, on the shipping lable, said NJ returns department. 3 days later Readynas is reporting more then 125 SMART errors. Also SD17 firmware. Back to Amazon it goes.

Should I be concerned?

I Purchased 4 Seagate ST31500341AS drives that came with SD17 and I've updated to SD1A.

I have a ReadyNAS X6 unit with 512Mb of ram and I'm already running 4.1.4 firmware.

I replaced the first disk and it is currently 15% initialized with 3hrs to go. My concern is that Frontview reports the disk as a Seagate ST31500341AS 465 GB disk, should I be concerned? or will that correct itself when the initalization is complete?

It will correct itself when all 4 drives are changed, right now it's taking it as the smallest drive.

nvladik wrote:
It will correct itself when all 4 drives are changed, right now it's taking it as the smallest drive.

Thanks for the quick response, I would have been more comfortable if it had still said 372 GB (I'm replacing 400GB drives), but it changed from 372Gb to 465Gb

Device Description Status
Disk 1 Seagate ST31500341AS 465 GB , 41 C / 105 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 2 Seagate ST3400832AS 372 GB , 42 C / 107 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 3 Seagate ST3400832AS 372 GB , 41 C / 105 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 4 Seagate ST3400633AS 372 GB , 43 C / 109 F , Write-cache ON OK

The first disk is now fully initialized and RAID sync is finished so the volume is now fully redundant

My experience seems to differ from others here

Marde wrote:
Sharing information about disk expansion on a NV+. Current NV+ is X-RAID using four 750GB disks. Started upgrading system to four 1.5TB disks. First disk replaced yesterday. It took 8+ hours to finish the first disk, 4 hours of Init and 4 hours of RAID Sync. Frontview -> Volumes -> Raid Settings, shows the first 1.5TB disk as [1397 GB].

I'm still reluctant to put the next disk in without asking.

I just popped in a 1.5TB drive to replace a failed 750 GB Seagate that is being sent back. Crazy enough, this was the last of the original 4 750GB drives to fail. I have had all 4 drives fail once in 2 years. All of them have failed at various points over the last 6 months. So, it looks like the mean time to failure on my batch of ST3750640AS 750 GB drives was only 2 years. That sucks, but I guess that's what the 5 year warranty is for.

Anyway, I borrowed a new 1.5TB drive to put in while I wait for the 750 GB back. It had CC1G and I flashed it to -> CC1H. It is initializing now:

Disk 4 Seagate ST31500341AS 1397 GB Initializing

This is on an NV with Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.4

I'll see how this goes. Maybe if it works I'll just upgrade them all to 1.5 TB drives...

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.

nvladik wrote:
Festus Hagen, check where you amazon order came from. Mine, on the shipping lable, said NJ returns department. 3 days later Readynas is reporting more then 125 SMART errors. Also SD17 firmware. Back to Amazon it goes.

I don't see anywhere stating where they shipped from, I did look at/record the smart data on the very first boot and they are not previously used/returned drives, though since then one of the drives has re-allocated sectors already, in just a couple hundred uptime hours, They are now (as of 12/21/08) in production enviroment.

I have not flashed them yet.

-Enjoy
fh : )_~