Does this plan cover any manufacturer's drives or only Seagate drives? Does this service cover external drives that are part of a NAS?
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Seagate Rescue and Replace plans cover any brand of external hard drive. If your drive experiences a covered failure, we can help recover all your files, photos, music, and movies for you at no additional charge. Manufacturer warranties may cover the cost of repairing your drive, but not the cost of restoring all your data. You could also receive a brand new Seagate hard drive that's equal or better than the one you need to replace, at no cost. At this time, the service plan does not cover NAS or RAID drives. Regards, Seagate Service Plans Customer Care
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You can fill as few as 2 slots (using one drive as a redundant drive) and leave the rest open for later use. I initially loaded 6 slots with drives and allowed the NAS to test all 6 drives. I them removed 2 drives and keep them as backups. I now have 4 3TB drives installed and running just fine configured as one volume.
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You are paying for their software, which is arguably the best one. I haven't tried FreeNAS but I would be very surprised if it was better. In any case the enterprise drives are the bigger part of the cost. Also these boxes come with excellent cooling and temperature monitoring.
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The NAS adapter will only recognize drives that are formatted as FAT. Most likely your drives are NTFS (for 2TB). But, if you had 4 USB sticks connected to a hub, you may be ok.
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Good answer. I just wanted to mention for others who may read this that most NAS systems (if that's what you use it in) will do their own disk surface checks during the setup or rebuild.
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The Seagate Rescue & Replace Plan is only eligible on single drive external hard drives. Therefore, the plan is not eligible on this model as it is a multi drive device. Please keep checking for future plan enhancements as we may be able to offer this product at a later date.
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Its only going to use what it needs. I got this for a HTPC and a 256 GB SSD, this is sized as just enough to run it. Have eSATA and USB drives attached sometimes but they are powered independently. This is a strange choice for NAS as this is a server with several HDDs usually requiring a much bigger PSU.
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You shouldn't have any issues. NAS firmware will work independently from the OS. You will control the drives from the NAS UI.
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There doesn't seem to be an indication that this drive had to be used as a NAS setup. My personal application is a NAS setup but is used primarily as a media host for an Apple TV2.
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This is a set it and forget it NAS. Needs not be re-imaged. And for the price you will pay for this unit, you are better off buying a used case, sticking 4 4TB drives in it and getting a USB flash drive and calling it a night. Thats what I did using Synology's free version of their NAS and sofar its working great. Over 150 days up. I sold this unit last year with over two years of trouble free service. The only reason I sold it was because it was too small for my growing needs. So to answer your question. Not sure. But its also not needed.
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I ordered the diskless and installed 2ea, 3TB Western Digital Green drives which were on the approved drive list. Worked flawlessly. I would hope that any drives pre installed would follow their own drive list.
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I have 2, 3 and 4TB drives connected to a NAS through this hub. Works just fine.
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No disks are included. I used NAS - specific drives in mine which perform well but you can use standard SATA drives too.
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I've wondered about this too. When I purchased this drive all I wanted was a drive, not a lot of software. And I have no interest in their sharing capability on social media. Maybe someone can answer this, like Seagate themselves.
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I have the Seagate 2tb and I also run Windows 7 and it just asked me to upload an out of date app but it works. That's all I can tell you.
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No, it can work in as standard desktop drive. Being designed for NAS though means it will tolerate being in close proximity to a lot of other disks, for both heat dispersion and resistance to vibrations caused by the other drives. You may be able to get a drive that has better overall performance and a larger cache in a non-NAS version for the same or lower price.
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Sorry, I can't find that info in my booklet. Try going to the Seagate website.