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5h1nj1
Sep 27, 2012Aspirant
Adding a WD20EARX to original Readynas Duo
Hi, I would appreciate some help from more experience Readynas users. After some terrible experience I had with the official Netgear support, I will try here, perhaps with more luck. I run a Ready...
mdgm-ntgr
Sep 27, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
After updating the firmware to 4.1.7 (or later) you will need to do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything) to get 4k sector partition alignment. Now you can do this before or after adding the 2TB disk but you will have to do it.
Be sure to use disks on the compatibility list for your Duo v1
Be sure to use disks on the compatibility list for your Duo v1
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