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Prenko
Feb 19, 2012Aspirant
Disc does not show
I have added a “WD20EARX Caviar Green SATA2 2TB, 64Mb” hard disc to my ReadyNas NV+. It already housed two “Seagate ST3750640NS SATA 750 GB”.
In the admin interface, all disks are visible but only lamps for the old (Seagate) disks are lit on the NAS unit. And worse, the capacity of the disk does not seem to increase at all. The space shown in the properties, in the windows explorer is the same as before I added the new disc (716 GB).
The question is if it is possible to combine the 2 different types of discs mentioned above? Or what could be the problem?
In the admin interface, all disks are visible but only lamps for the old (Seagate) disks are lit on the NAS unit. And worse, the capacity of the disk does not seem to increase at all. The space shown in the properties, in the windows explorer is the same as before I added the new disc (716 GB).
The question is if it is possible to combine the 2 different types of discs mentioned above? Or what could be the problem?
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- PapaBear1ApprenticeWhat shows up in the Volume Settings page (under Volumes in the menu bar on the left) in Frontview?
What version of RAIDiator are you running?
If the disk is accepted, the system will accept a disk equal to or larger than the smallest disk in the array. Since you have two 750GB disks, a good 2TB disk should be accepted. However, the WD20EARX is a 4K sector disk as compared to the 750GB disks previously in the array which are 512K sector drives. In order to support 4K sector drives (most of the new ones are) you need to perform a factory default on RAIDiator 4.1.7 or later.To do this you would have to update your current and complete backup, update RAIDiator and then do a factory default. Restore the data from the backup and then hot add the 2TB. - PrenkoAspirantThe Volume Settings page is empty, actually it's the USB tab that shows up, empty.
The cersion is RAIDiator™ v3.01c1-p6 [1.00a034]. Does that mean that I should still perform a factory default? And/or update the RAIDiator? - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredBoth. Backup your data if you haven't already, update to the latest firmware and after verifying the firmware update was successful (should see redesigned web-interface with NetGear not Infrant shown in Frontview: http://www.readynas.com/simulators/frontview/) then do a factory default. Also note that with RAIDiator 4.x the default password has changed: http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/what_is_the_frontview_default_login_and_password_after_a_factory_default
Your currently installed firmware was released over 5 years ago back in December 2006!: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7836 - PrenkoAspirantThank you very much. That worked out just fine :)
However the memory did not increas as much as I had hoped. It is now only 997 GB (before it was 716 GB). After all I added a 2 TB disk. Is this how it is supposed to be? - PapaBear1ApprenticeOk, you are on an NV+ (v1) so what disks are installed (make and model)?
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