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I think I'm just gonna sell it straight away, as I don't need it.

Got a reply from HGST. As they don't have these disks anymore, they proposed to send me a G-Drive external HDD as replacement. I agreed. Anyone knowing these ones? Amazon sells them for 164£.
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Well, a brand new one could be damaged too, already saw that many times, when f.ex. it's not well packed when they ship it. At least this one was running fine, so I know it's not broken. It has 15000...

A bit more than 1 year old, has 15000 hours power-on time, just like all of mine.

New disk is in, rebuilt is running.

Got the same disk like the ones I have for 120€, so I just took that one, and I also send my damaged one to HGST today, warranty is valid until the 29.06.2015,...

Why would I pay more for a 6TB which will not be used by the NAS anyway? If in the coming years I would then change disks, I would always get 6TB ones, and I would end up in years having 12x6TB...

I didn't mean this only with the Hitachi disks, but I thought this was a COMMON problem? I mean a common NAS problem, not related to the disks.

One guy from the Synology forum told me just to...

I considered doing the hot swap when I set up the NAS, but in the end I decided to go with a normal Raid 6.

Have to check tonight when I bought the NAS and the drives, maybe I will have a look in the forum, must be a thread about it. I guess they're 2-3 years old (according to the forum, I ordered it the...

One disk on my Synology 2413+ started with bad sector counts some time ago, and since 3 days it gives me I/O errors.

I get an health report every first day of the month, and since the 1.08.2014,...