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swehjo
Jun 29, 2013Guide
Three disk failurs within 15 months on same channel
I have now had three disk failures, february -12, october -12 and now june -13, all on channel three. Seagate disks all three. Normally this channel has also been running slightly hotter than the ...
swehjo
Jun 30, 2013Guide
StephenB wrote: How did they fail? reallocated sectors or something else?
Yes, reallocated sectors...
During these ~4 years I've had the NV+ the two first years it worked flawless. Then 2 years ago I had to disks starting to go bad. One in channel two and one in channel three. Changed both. After that I've had another two disk failures, due to reallocated sectors, as stated above all. Refurbished disks I assume.
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