Ultra6 rebuild always ends with "complete" and then "Dead"

nlaredo wrote:
Yes, my biggest complaint here is that netgear failed to give me a user option to ignore the drive errors and complete the rebuild anyway and just tell me which files are now corrupted by the roughly ~4k of bad blocks vs declaring the whole array dead...

I agree it would be nice. Cloning the bad drives does the same thing, but requires that you already have the replacement drives.

BTW, Scrubbing [prior to the main failure] would have uncovered/reallocated the bad blocks too, so perhaps setting up a scrubbing schedule after you get it rebuilt would be a good idea.

nlaredo wrote:
On the RN516, the backup is *larger* than the original ultra6 data used.

If you are talking about bytes written, then it could be due to the different file system. How large a discrepancy are you talking about?

nlaredo wrote:
...I guess I could root the ultra6 and put the right tools on there (like hdparm) if they aren't already there, but I didn't want to void any remaining warranty.

Enabling ssh (and adding tools) doesn't void the warranty, though of course if you do something which destroys the OS, etc Netgear won't help.