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I bought two Western Digital WD10EACS drives that I could not get to work in the 323. Got the improperly formatted, please power down and swap position errors. Have the updated FW and played with the jumper settings on the drives to no avail. So I sent them back to Newegg.
Reading the reviews on the 7200.11 from Seagate and the 1.5TB from them, I am hesitant to go there as well.
I am going to setup in RAID 0 - what 1TB drives would you guys suggest?
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I have 6 of the WD drives you mention, with no problems. The error you report has nothing to do with the drives. What it has to do with is an error with DLinks F/W and it improperly wrote one or more of the configuration files. It happens to be that the file is the hd_magic_num file. It could have been resolved quite easily. When reformatting deos not work for this error, it is usually one of the copies in flash that was corrupted or not actually written.
With that being said, I do highly recommend the WD10EACS for use in the DNS.
As for RAID0, I VERY strongly recommend against it. It offers no performance increase in this installation, and if a drive fails, 100% of your data will be lost.
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I got off to a very bad start with a pair of the 7200.11 1TB drives which I bought for my new DNS-323. I tried to burn them in on a Windows XP Box first and had one DOA and the other one failed within 24 hours of constant drive read/wrie diagnostic testing. So I don't blame you for staying away from them.
I switched to the WD Caviar Black drives and haven't looked back. They are superb in the DNS-323.
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I just got 2 'Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000' both 1TB. They work great and very good price (google it)
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I bought a DNS-323 and two WD10EACS drives last Feb. I upgraded to FW v1.04, popped the drives into the DNS straight out of the box, and set them up as two separate drives. I then installed fun_plug 0.3 and the Chumby/rsync backup scheme, and it has been runnning flawlessly 24-7 for the last 8 months.
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furrynyy23 wrote:
I bought two Western Digital WD10EACS drives that I could not get to work in the 323. Got the improperly formatted, please power down and swap position errors. Have the updated FW and played with the jumper settings on the drives to no avail. So I sent them back to Newegg.
Reading the reviews on the 7200.11 from Seagate and the 1.5TB from them, I am hesitant to go there as well.
I am going to setup in RAID 0 - what 1TB drives would you guys suggest?
There is very little point to using RAID0 on the DNS-323 - it provides no performance enhancement, and chances are you won't be dealing with files exceeding 1TB in size.
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