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volpone
Feb 21, 2012Aspirant
Mixing brand model and size to upgrade storage space?
Hello all, I need to upgrade my X86 ReadyNas Pro Pioneer (4.2.19) X-RAID2 4 drives setup to 6 drives setup to get more storage space. The four installed drive models WD 1TB Green WD10EADS-00L5B1 (...
mdgm-ntgr
Feb 21, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
Stephen, not necessarily. If the NAS was last factory reset on RAIDiator 4.2.11 or earlier the disks may not be 4k sector partition aligned.
Take a look at Why you might want to factory reset a x86 ReadyNAS
If disks are not 4k sector partition aligned you have two options as detailed there.
Take a look at Why you might want to factory reset a x86 ReadyNAS
If disks are not 4k sector partition aligned you have two options as detailed there.
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