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Add SSD to RN528X
Hi Following on from https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-ReadyNAS-Users-General/Add-SSD-drive-s-to-RN528X/td-p/1776859 I've just had a go at adding an M2 SSD to my new 528X. It seems have wo...
I guess one question I have would be:
Ideally an SSD should be partitioned on 2048 sector boundry and this was the sgdisk default. I overrode it to 64 sectors to mirror the original partitions exactly. Is this necessary?? Or as long as they are the same size in sectors does thte starting sector matter??
When creating volumes on a drive that the GUI cannot see, it is best to use the Netgear utility volume_util (aka rnutil volume_util), not do everything manually. volume_util --help will point you in the right direction. Once the volume is created, the GUI should see it, and everything else can be done from there.
Note that this is for devices the GUI is not designed to see, such as the M2 SSD here or a drive in a non-Netgear external SAS chassis (on compatible rack mount systems), not for a drive that simply fails to show up when it should.
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