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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...
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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