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Firmware Question for SPARK ReadyNAS
I have a DUO and 2 NV+ units. I noticed that the DUO and one of the NV+ is running firmware 4.1.6 but the other NV+ is running 4.01c1-p1 I had the later NV+ do a "check for update" and it said I...
The current (and final) firmware for all the sparc NAS is 4.1.16. It was released in May 2017.
4.1.6 was released in 2009; 4.01c1-p1 was released in 2008. I'm not sure, but I think Netgear might have changed the update server names sometime after 4.01c1-p1 was released. If you aren't seeing 4.1.16, then you should manually install it.
You do need to extract the binary from the zip file first - that might explain the invalid image error you got.
BTW, there were some changes to the on-disk formats made after the early days, in order to support 1.5 and 2 TB drives. You probably should do a factory reset on all three NAS after you get the current firmware installed in order to get those changes. I don't recall exactly when the changes were made, but they were certainly done after 4.01c1-p1. mdgm might recall when those changes were made.
I'm so used to deploying packages as a zip file I never thought about actually extracting the file. That did the trick! Thanks!
RAIDiator 4.1.7 added 4K sector support.
So if you last factory reset on older firmware than that it is advisable to backup your data, update to 4.1.7 (or later e.g. 4.1.16) if have not already and then do a factory reset and restore data from backup. A factory reset (on 4.1.7 or later) is needed to get 4K sector support.
If you use a 4K sector disk without the partitions being properly aligned performance will be terrible.
I do not see a 4.1.7 for my units (DUOv1 and NV+).
4.1.7 is very old firmware. Don't look for that firmware.
4.1.16 is much newer than that.
mdgm wrote:
4.1.7 is very old firmware. Don't look for that firmware.
muzicman61: Just use 4.1.16. I believe mdgm mentioned 4.1.7 in response to my comment earlier
StephenB wrote:
BTW, there were some changes to the on-disk formats made after the early days, in order to support 1.5 and 2 TB drives. You probably should do a factory reset on all three NAS after you get the current firmware installed in order to get those changes. I don't recall exactly when the changes were made, but they were certainly done after 4.01c1-p1. @mdgm might recall when those changes were made.
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