NAS HDD double failure
Have been having problems with a Netgear Readynas Duo dropping off the home network when I tried to transfer reasonably large files eg: an Mp4 movie file. It would drop the connection and then I was unable to ping the NAS. The only way to get it back online was to reset and reboot it.
On reviewing the log files Netgear Tech Support reckon it is due to both HDDs having bad sectors and about to fail completely.
I have had it about 2-3 years and from memory I think both HDDs were brought at about the same time as part of an offer where you got the 2nd one free. So presumably they would be from the same batch although I am feeling very unlucky as it seems remote that these things can fail in a relatively short period of time.
I see that there are manufacturer software solutions for testing the HDDs, in my case a pair of 2TB WD Green sata drives.
Question is if I throw them into my pc and run the tests and they come back okay will a reformat of the drives make them useable again in the NAS? I am wondering whether a few power outages that we have had over the past couple of years was no good for the drives and a simple reformat will make them good to go again.
I had a spare 2TB HDD drive lying around that I was going to put into my pc which I hotswapped into the NAS and so far so good. After it resynced with the remaining drive I transferred across 14gb of stuff and it didn't drop the connection at all. Would be good to save the two "old" drives if there is some way.
Cheers