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Mounting a drive without a tray help
I cant find a replacement disk tray anywhere in the known universe. It also seems impossible to actually reach Netgear support. So, I tried plugging in a fourth drive using spacers and screws, et...
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to respond. However, I am not concerned about vibration, etc. That is easily solved.
What bothers me is taking a new, unitialized drive (WD 3TB NASware 3.0) - plugging it into the NAS - seeing it on the drive lights during bootup - then it disappears when the firmware loads - not visible in RAIDAR.
This the fourth drive, thank you.
I can't see any electrical or mechanical connections withing the disk tray ... SO why is this happening?
trouble ahead - better off dead
rcolman wrote:
I can't see any electrical or mechanical connections withing the disk tray ... SO why is this happening?
Of course there are no electrical connections, but the tray does keep the sata/power connections in the drive well-aligned, with no weight from the drive stressing them.
Likely w/o the tray, your drive power/SATA connections are flakey.
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