Well, I realised I needed to upgrade my Nas box last month when I ran out of room for my Po... er the wife's digital picture collection. So, I dug around a bit and decided on a Thecus N5200 from Newegg with 3 WD Green Power 1 TB drives from Zip Zoom Fly.
I decided to give ZZF a try because I heard about the nice packaging they provide for OEM drives. Well, I got things in and started formatting the RAID5 with the 3 drives and wouldn't you know it, SMART errors from slot 1. Crap! So I pulled the drive and reseated it, and it finished formatting a few hours later. I started copying a few hundred gig of video files over to it, fully expecting it to crap out again and it did.
So I got on ZZF's web site on Sunday night, and filled out an RMA request. I recieved my RMA # on Monday afternoon. I am on the road tonight, so I will be shipping it out on Tuesday afternoon, I hope.
I will update this thread with the results of my experiences. Wish me luck. Stay tuned.
It makes me wonder if WD even turned the damn drive on in their factory. It never even completed it's first format. I wish I would have gone with the Seagate 7200.10s now instead of the WD drives. I suppose I can just fill the last 2 slots with 1.5 TB drives instead of 1 TB models, and then update the original 3 drives to 1.5's when I need the room. We shall see.
I'm gonna walk across the street to the Bennigans and have a few beers and then call it a night.
Don
I decided to give ZZF a try because I heard about the nice packaging they provide for OEM drives. Well, I got things in and started formatting the RAID5 with the 3 drives and wouldn't you know it, SMART errors from slot 1. Crap! So I pulled the drive and reseated it, and it finished formatting a few hours later. I started copying a few hundred gig of video files over to it, fully expecting it to crap out again and it did.
So I got on ZZF's web site on Sunday night, and filled out an RMA request. I recieved my RMA # on Monday afternoon. I am on the road tonight, so I will be shipping it out on Tuesday afternoon, I hope.
I will update this thread with the results of my experiences. Wish me luck. Stay tuned.
It makes me wonder if WD even turned the damn drive on in their factory. It never even completed it's first format. I wish I would have gone with the Seagate 7200.10s now instead of the WD drives. I suppose I can just fill the last 2 slots with 1.5 TB drives instead of 1 TB models, and then update the original 3 drives to 1.5's when I need the room. We shall see.
I'm gonna walk across the street to the Bennigans and have a few beers and then call it a night.
Don