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cathcam
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Mar 03, 2015

Mismatched drive replacement

I have ReadyNas NVX Pioneer Edition, 4x 2TB Seagate ST32000542AS, its been running flawlessly for 4+ years. It's running the latest level 4.2.27, running as RAID Level X-RAID2, 4 disks When I reboo...
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cathcam's avatar
cathcam
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Mar 04, 2015
vandermerwe wrote:

If it can't, I would suggest buying either a seagate nas drive:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Cache-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000VN000/dp/B00D1GYNT4/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1425461718&sr=1-5&keywords=seagate+2tb

or a wd red drive:

http://www.amazon.com/Red-2TB-NAS-Hard-Drive/dp/B008JJLZ7G/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1425461873&sr=1-1&keywords=wd+red+2tb



Thanks for the reply guys.

I had expected to buy a drive, my real question was on compatibility between drives. Does it matter if the ReadyNas has 3x 32mb buffer, 512 block drives and 1x 64Mb, 4k block drive?

++Mark.

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