Recent content by greyskyblue

Hi RealBeast - I tried that myself and Seagate walked me through that too. The Disk 1 volume (7452 GB) was still not able to be re-initialized.

Hello, I am having a problem getting a former RAID 5 configuration in my PC to be recognized as individual HDDs. Initially I set up my new Dell XPS 8700 with 3 internal Seagate 4TB HDDs, in RAID 5 (software RAID via Windows). The computer worked fine after I reinstalled Windows 7 Professional...

Hi SuperSoph_WD - I checked and the drives are out of warranty. I figured I'd try and save about $400 by repurposing the externals to internals. I suppose I can try one like you suggest, and if that doesn't work then I will have to buy new ones. Thanks for your help!

Hi giantbucket - NAS because I have my 3 internal drive bays filled. I have a new computer and I just configured it in RAID5, with 3 - 4TB internal drives. I am most concerned with drive failure and loss of data and I'm trying to get my configuration optimal from the beginning. But I'm using...

Hello, I own 4 WD My Book Essentials external 3TB HDDs (P/N WDBACW0030HBK-00) like this: http://www.amazon.com/Book-External-Drive-Storage-Backup/dp/B0042Z55RM/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1424352339&sr=1-1&keywords=WDBACW0030HBK-00 The drives are about 2 years old. I would like to...