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Author Topic: Seagate ST310005N1A1AS 1TB Drive  (Read 8434 times)

dbuttry

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Seagate ST310005N1A1AS 1TB Drive
« on: January 04, 2009, 06:53:49 AM »
Does anyone have any experience with using the Seagate ST310005N1A1AS-RK 1TB Drive in the DNS-323?  I have a 323 ordered and Bestbuy currently has this drive on sale for $109.99.  I would appropriate anyones feedback on this.  It is not on the official list of tested drives.
Thanks.
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Lupismaximus

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Re: Seagate ST310005N1A1AS 1TB Drive
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2009, 10:09:07 PM »
I just picked up the same drive from Fry's for $99 dollars.  I have been reading about it and there is good and bad.  Anandtech has some good things to say about it, but nothing I have found speaks to compatibility of this drive with the DNS-323.  I will mention this.  The new 1.06 FW release now supports 1.5TB drives.  The only 1.5TB drive selling on the market is the Seagate drive which is almost identical to the 1TB drive except for an extra platter.  I would assume that there wouldn't be any problems.
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luminousintensity

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Re: Seagate ST310005N1A1AS 1TB Drive
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2009, 09:20:14 PM »
I recently set up a DNS323 with an ST310005N1A1AS-RK drive, and an ST31000340AS drive (on the recommended drives list) in a RAID1 config.  I had ordered two of the -340AS drive from two separate online retailers (trying to ensure drives from different production lots).  When one of the retailers failed to deliver, I picked up the -RK drive from BestBuy.

It's been working well so far, but the file transfer speed has been a bit slow.  I've been moving photo files, iTunes files, CDs and CDROM content onto the DNS via a wireless 802.11G connection, and getting 3 to 4 Mb/sec transfer rates at best.  Having never set up anything like this before, I'm unsure what to expect in terms of speed, but all of this is taking a loonnnnng time (hours, days).

I'm using the 1.06 firmware.  Note that the -RK drive ships with the jumper in the SATA position; the -RK instructions indicate the jumper needs to be removed to make the drive work in the faster SATA II config (though D-Link seems to be silent on whether or not the DNS is compatible or not with SATA II).  As the router I'm using has 10/100, not gigabit ethernet, setting the DNS to 100 rather than 'auto' did boost the speeds somewhat.

I'm an amateur first timer at all of this stuff. Hope this is helpful. Will be very curious about your experience should you choose to post it...  ::)
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rc-dc

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Re: Seagate ST310005N1A1AS 1TB Drive
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2009, 08:06:37 PM »
I just purchased my DNS-323 with 2 ST31000340AS drives (all from Amazon), one to serve as primary media/file storage and the other to back up the first drive. I have only tested moving a few larger files over and it does appear a tad slow, but smaller files moved instantly. No solid metrics on that. I'll change my setting to 100 and see if that helps - thanks for the tip (I don't have a gb either).

One thing I'm noticing is a click sound that happens often enough to be wary (maybe every 30 minutes to an hour?). One poster on Amazon suggested this is a symptom of a reset because of an error, and that sound is the drive heads. I'll keep an eye on it, but if anyone else has noticed something like this please share. I'll update this once I get some more information on transfer rate.

UPDATE:  file transfer averaged (at least while I was awake) 6.8 to 7.12 mb/s with an initial estimate of 6.35 hours to move 134 gigs of music.  The final report was 7:40 total hours to backup the files. 1.06 firmware, and kept the 10/100/1000 settings at 'Auto'.
« Last Edit: January 16, 2009, 09:04:55 PM by rc-dc »
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xmetal

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Re: Seagate ST310005N1A1AS 1TB Drive
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2009, 03:21:02 PM »
I get the clicking sound as well on my 1TB seagate drive, which is running in my media player (not the DNS-323)...so it appears to be a symptom of the drive and not the NAS.
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rc-dc

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Re: Seagate ST310005N1A1AS 1TB Drive
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2009, 09:01:37 PM »
Good to know - thanks.  I also just found on a Web search related to another Seagate drive that a semi-frequent clicking was related to errors with the drive going into powersaving mode, which caused it to spin down a lot and click.  At least I know (so far) it's not the 'click of death'.  I'm going to try Seagate forums on that issue...

Quote from: xmetal on January 16, 2009, 03:21:02 PM
I get the clicking sound as well on my 1TB seagate drive, which is running in my media player (not the DNS-323)...so it appears to be a symptom of the drive and not the NAS.
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rc-dc

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Re: Seagate ST310005N1A1AS 1TB Drive
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2009, 05:21:00 PM »
One more follow-up.  I RMA'd my two Seagate ST31000340AS drives because of the intermittent clicking noise, and slow reaction time (convinced fully by Amazon reviews on long-term health and feedback from Seagate's forums).  Thankfully, I returned them to Amazon within the return period and picked up two Western Digital green Caviar WD10EADS drives. 

They installed no problem, copied the same volume of data over (it was about an hour slower for 164 gb of data, transferring at 6.8 mb/s) but they fire up much faster (there was a noticeable lag of 4-5 seconds with the ST31000340AS when accessing the drive for the first time after boot-up) and they are significantly cooler. The 323 case was quite warm to the touch with the ST31000340AS, but now it's room temperature.

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