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HD Compatibility Question
We have 2 NV+ presently each filled with 4 x 750 GB Seagates . We need to upgrade to the maximum 4 x 2TB. Their HCL contains many unobtainable disks. This post: https://community.netgear.com/t5/R...
WD Red drives are a great choice. Swap out 1 drive at a time and let the NAS rebuild the system first, then pop in a second new drive, rebuild, then a 3rd, and finally a forth. That way you won't lose any data. As long as it's setup as XRAID5. You can even access the NAS as it's rebuilding, though it'll be faster if it's just left alone to do it's thing. It'll still take some time for each drive. At least they're small drives.
I actually have 4 3TB WD Red drives that used to be in a NV+ V2 before being pulled and installed in a 516. They still work great and a couple are in the 4 year old range now. Jumping from 750 GB to 2TB drives will be nice update. Going from 2.03 TB of space to 5.43 TB. That's more then double, and 2TB WD Red drives are pretty cheap now.
You're getting your money's worth out of them OLD NAS units.
JBDragon1 wrote:
Swap out 1 drive at a time and let the NAS rebuild the system first, then pop in a second new drive, rebuild, then a 3rd...
I do suggest upgrading to the current firmware before you begin (4.1.16).
Also, since your NAS is old, it might be wise to do a factory reset instead of replacing one drive at a time. You would need to restore data from a backup of course. There are a couple of special circumstances with older V1s, where a factory reset is the best approach. One is if your data volume doesn't have 4K sector alignment. Also, there was an volume size limit long ago, which required a factory reset to overcome (related to RAID block size I think)
mdgm-ntgr used to have a guide here: http://www.rnasguide.com/2011/06/22/why-you-might-want-to-factory-reset-a-sparc-readynas/ But www.rnasguide.com doesn't seem to be hosted anymore.
Sometimes there's good reasons to start fresh. I ended up doing that on my NAS and I didn't even change HDD's. At least there's not a lot of Data to Backup and restore so it shouldn't take all that long to just start fresh.
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