DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

slaman · 2009-08-13 18:55:48

I have a DNS-323 set up with 2xWD10EADS WD Green 1TB drives set up in RAID1. It is connected to my D-Link DIR-655 and has a 1000mbs connection established.

I pride myself on having a quiet setup and the DNS-323 is sitting on top of my desk. At night, when I'm sleeping, I hear 10s long bursts of hard grinding/disk acccess. It stops for about 60s and starts up again... It's extremely loud - loud enough to wake me up! The only thing that is running is a torrent that has sourced a file on the disk, but nothing warrants the constant seek noise that comes out of it.

Any ideas? I've heard there may be issues with v1.06 firmware, but I am running v1.07 firmware...

slaman · 2009-08-15 10:39:45

I wish I could record this sound and post it... VERY annoying... it goes non-stop for minutes on end. Any ideas???? I can't see the drive to run de-frag either.

luusac · 2009-08-15 15:45:51

if it is a grinding noise it sounds like a mechanical problem with the drive (are you sure it is the drive an not something else like a fan)?

slaman · 2009-08-16 04:01:21

luusac wrote:
if it is a grinding noise it sounds like a mechanical problem with the drive (are you sure it is the drive an not something else like a fan)?

Yeah, it's definitely not a mechanical problem, because I know the clicking sound that occurs when a drive is on its last legs... it's a disk access sound - a constant seeking... makes me think the drive needs to be defragged, or the RAID volume wasn't set up correctly... don't know. I think it's definitely a DNS-323 issue though...

mig · 2009-08-16 09:26:50

slaman wrote:
I think it's definitely a DNS-323 issue though...

Have you tested the drives with WD drive diagnostics utilities?

slaman · 2009-08-18 08:26:57

mig wrote:
slaman wrote:
I think it's definitely a DNS-323 issue though...
Have you tested the drives with WD drive diagnostics utilities?

This is an issue since I cannot run ANY diagnostic utilities on a network drive. Any suggestions unless I have to pull it out of the DNS-323 and stick it in my machine?

slaman · 2009-08-18 16:47:53

It's only been 24 hrs, but I haven't heard the seeking anymore... What I did do was install an updated Vista driver for the DNS-323... don't know if this was a fix or not.

EDIT: Nope... not fixed yet.

Last edited by slaman (2009-08-18 20:29:43)

mig · 2009-08-18 21:11:48

slaman wrote:
mig wrote:
slaman wrote:
I think it's definitely a DNS-323 issue though...
Have you tested the drives with WD drive diagnostics utilities?
This is an issue since I cannot run ANY diagnostic utilities on a network drive. Any suggestions unless I have to pull it out of the DNS-323 and stick it in my machine?

You will have to pull the drives out of the DNS-323 and connect them to a machine that can run the WD drive diagnostics utilities

This test will help determine if the problem is in the drives or not.

slaman · 2009-08-25 17:08:09

I don't think I will be able to recognize the drive in WDC's tool even if it's setup as RAID1... no?

mig · 2009-08-25 19:37:07

Turn off the DNS-323.
Remove one drive
Test the drive
Put the drive back into the DNS-323 (make sure it goes back into the same slot it was removed from)
Repeat for other drive.
Turn on the DNS-323 after returning both drives to the DNS-323

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#1 2009-08-13 18:55:48

Long Seeking/Grinding Noise

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#4 2009-08-16 04:01:21

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#5 2009-08-16 09:26:50

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#6 2009-08-18 08:26:57

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slaman wrote:

#7 2009-08-18 16:47:53

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#8 2009-08-18 21:11:48

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slaman wrote:

mig wrote:

slaman wrote:

#9 2009-08-25 17:08:09

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