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"factory reset" advice given WAY too often...
I realize that a "factory reset" (or "factory default") might resolve many issues. However, I think people on this forum are suggesting it entirely too often. (Equally as annoying (if not more so) i...
...a slight misunderstanding... I didn't mean that netgear was always the one suggesting factory defaults. Other users also give that "advice."
If a NAS is being used for it's primary purpose (network attached STORAGE), used within known limitations (such as not expanding more than 8TB from initial on v4 firmware) and people aren't doing strange things with it (such as using it as an application server, VM server, etc), then I don't see why a factory reset should ever be needed.
I've never done anything with any netgear NAS firmware that REQUIRED a factory default to recover. Sure, it might have been *easier* to reset everything and start over, but it wasn't strictly required.
As a random example, I was messing around with ethernet teaming a couple nights ago and configured an LACP mode that my switch doesn't support. Suddenly, I couldn't talk to my NAS. (Technically, I supposed I was talking to it. Yelling at it, actually.. but that's not what I meant.) The solution (without a factory default) was to unplug the second ethernet cable and reboot (normal reboot with the front button) the NAS. When it came up, it sensed only a single ethernet cable and ignored the teaming config. I was then able to reconfigure the ethernet ports and everything was good.
Anyway, I just brought it up as feedback. I was reading random threads and it seemed that many of them offered the "factory default" suggestion...
If a NAS is being used for it's primary purpose (network attached STORAGE), used within known limitations (such as not expanding more than 8TB from initial on v4 firmware) and people aren't doing strange things with it (such as using it as an application server, VM server, etc), then I don't see why a factory reset should ever be needed.
I've never done anything with any netgear NAS firmware that REQUIRED a factory default to recover. Sure, it might have been *easier* to reset everything and start over, but it wasn't strictly required.
As a random example, I was messing around with ethernet teaming a couple nights ago and configured an LACP mode that my switch doesn't support. Suddenly, I couldn't talk to my NAS. (Technically, I supposed I was talking to it. Yelling at it, actually.. but that's not what I meant.) The solution (without a factory default) was to unplug the second ethernet cable and reboot (normal reboot with the front button) the NAS. When it came up, it sensed only a single ethernet cable and ignored the teaming config. I was then able to reconfigure the ethernet ports and everything was good.
Anyway, I just brought it up as feedback. I was reading random threads and it seemed that many of them offered the "factory default" suggestion...
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