So…for those who value their data and put in long hours…
I class myself in this category, and VERY disappointed to find that the ZimaCube has POSSIBLY fried 2 of my drives. The drives in the first two slots are now unresponsive and it has killed my dataset and therefore I have lost all my data. If only one drive had gone I could have recovered the data.
Any ideas as to why this happened? Drives are Western Digital Red (WDC_WD40EFPX). I already had to spend a fortune on new drives as I was aware that there were issues with Seagate Ironwolf drives so I didn’t use the ones I had. The drives are less than a few months old. I have yet to see if the drives work in an external caddy and will post back here if thats the case.
Very unhappy with the ZimaCube right now.
Additional:
Drives tested in external caddy - Unresponsive, so appear to be completely dead. I took the brave/stupid decision to try the 2 remaining drives in the same bays that the dead drives were in and they still work. So now that my initial annoyance has died down over these drives, I have contacted the store I purchased from and should hopefully be able to get them replaced.
Have to admit - don’t think I can tolerate any more drive failures. If it happens again then I’ll be returning the ZimaCube.