Hello I am a complete beginner when it comes to NAS and storage and network related things in general.
I purchased my very first NAS a ds920+ to get away from my reliance on cloud storage. SO FAR I FEEL OVERWHELMED and maybe this was too much for a beginner like me. But I will learn as I go and make many mistakes I’m sure. And to go with my 920 I purchased four 6 TB WD RED PLUS drives.
Now before I setup the NAS I want to make sure that the drives are healthy and I want to scan them to check for bad sectors and or other errors.
I read that DSM doesn’t allow to scan for bad sectors?
How would I go about scanning these NAS drives for bad sectors in windows 10 from my laptop? Would I need to buy one of those HDD adapters or can I run something like HD TUNE from the disks inside the NAS?
I Also need to scan my WD passport external Hdds that I will be offloading all files onto the NAS, but I think they may have some bad sectors and or bitrot? Any software suggestions to use to check hard drive health?
Thanks any comments and suggestions appreciated.
I purchased my very first NAS a ds920+ to get away from my reliance on cloud storage. SO FAR I FEEL OVERWHELMED and maybe this was too much for a beginner like me. But I will learn as I go and make many mistakes I’m sure. And to go with my 920 I purchased four 6 TB WD RED PLUS drives.
Now before I setup the NAS I want to make sure that the drives are healthy and I want to scan them to check for bad sectors and or other errors.
I read that DSM doesn’t allow to scan for bad sectors?
How would I go about scanning these NAS drives for bad sectors in windows 10 from my laptop? Would I need to buy one of those HDD adapters or can I run something like HD TUNE from the disks inside the NAS?
I Also need to scan my WD passport external Hdds that I will be offloading all files onto the NAS, but I think they may have some bad sectors and or bitrot? Any software suggestions to use to check hard drive health?
Thanks any comments and suggestions appreciated.