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1.1K views 8 replies 3 participants last post by  JonnyAlpha  
J
#1 ·
Hi;

I need some help confirming my fears about my Hard Drive.

I have just built a NAS box using FreeNAS and one of my brand new WD Caviar Green 3 x SATA HDDs has developed a problem already!!!!

It suddenly disappeared from the zfs pool ZFS RAIDZ1 (Equivalent to RAID 5 I think). It didn't give me the option to replace it as it has just dissapeared!! Anyway I am posting questions on the FreeNAS forum ref re-building the array but I need help on hear in salvaging or confirming the drive is kaput!!!

I ran Western Digitals Data Guard or whatever it is called and ran the short test and the drive passed???

I have am now using SPINRITE and running a level 4 (Low Level) Test but it says its going to take 7 days!!!

All I need to know is is the drive knackered and worthy of being returned???

Anyone suggest the best quickest way of telling??

Thanks in advance.
 
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#2 ·
Dont use "green" drives for any raid setup they are not supported for that purpose by WD and many similar reports of failed raid sets with them. Easy way is to run the WD diagnostics see my sig to test the drive
 
J
#3 ·
Oh that's bloomin fantastic - just wasted £160 on HDDs for my new NAS then!!!!!!!!!

I'll do a full test using WD Data Life Guard and see what that pull back otherwise I'll have to RMA it and get another WD Green.
Where in their documentation does it say DO NOT USE FOR RAID???

I bought it from Amazon and did some (Clearly not very good) research, one of the reviews was a fella who had bought three for a NAS RAID setup he gave them 4/5 stars??
 
J
#5 ·
Well that'll teach me for not swatting up on Tech Specs before purchase!!!

So I now have 3 x spanking new HDDs that I cannot use for my NAS and do not need anywhere else!!!

I can't RMA them to the seller as they are not U/S and are fit for purpose its just not the purpose I had intended.

:-(

Thanks for the repsonses.
 
J
#6 ·
ust a thought I am using these drives i a FreeNASsystem which is a software RAID not a hardware RAID would that mae a difference in that they should be OK??
 
J
#9 · (Edited)
Wdidle has also been suggested in another associated post on the FreeNAS Forum by cyberjock, he has 20 odd WD Green HDDs running in FreeNAS with no problems intellipark timeout set using wdidle to 300s.

I'm going to give it a whirl.
 
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