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[giant]

Hi, I've been using a 323 for some time now with a 200Gb Seagate drive that has given me no problems so far. Last week, I bought a Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB hard disk (WD10EACS). It worked flawlessly for a few days with the latest firmware (1.06), but since a few days ago, things started to go wrong.

One of my folders showed up as a 'file' and I couldn't open it.
http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=error.c31.jpg
So, I did a system restart, and after the restart, the HDD lights turned orange. As I went in the software, it told me that the disk was not formatted. Having just put all my data back into the drive, I obviously skipped the reformat and shut down the thing, took out the hard disk, and put it back in again.

This time, it detects the file system, and I can see all my data there, and the same folder appears to still be a 'file' which cannot be opened. And more importantly, now my DNS323 has a mind of its own. Most of the time the read/write speed would stuck at 40Kb/s(Originally ~10Mb/s). Opening files and folders takes hours. My FTP folder is also not accessible anymore. I cannot stream videos anymore.

What's happening?

I'm running on a Core2DUO vista 32bit based rig, using a DI-624 router (Yes I'm a Dlink fanboy)

[Zardoz66]

I had some questions about the WD green drives in the 323, I know on other enterprise class RAIDs that they are not liked as the green drives have some "power features" that mess with raids. I am not sure if this would be true with the 323. but would not be surprised.

[giant]

Yeah I heard about that as well.

This is stated on their website.

IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance. Additionally, WD Caviar Green drives consume less current during startup allowing lower peak loads on systems as they are booted.

IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise and vibration.

IntelliPark - Delivers lower power consumption by automatically unloading the heads during idle to reduce aerodynamic drag.

[mulder]

Western Digital Caviar WD10EACS specs:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1679&p_created=#jumper

Would a different jumper setting help?

[giant]

Ah i gotta try that, thing is, its OK now. And I just found out that I've got more folders that got 'converted' into 'files'. Also when I try to move these files, an error msg pops out telling me I have not enough space for 5.2EB of data.

[Zardoz66]

Mulder, good to know thats is an option...