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New HDDs (as of 2016) have 2 instead of 3 screwholes on left and right side, problem with disk trays
We just upgraded our RN 104 with 2 new 8 TB disks: Seagate Archive HDD v2 8TB, SATA 6Gb/s (ST8000AS0002) They are working fine, but I was having problems fixing them to the disk tray. New HDDs se...
Laserbait wrote:
For what it's worth, my Seagate ST6000VN0021 (IronWolf NAS drive) also only has 2 holes per side, not 3,
The WDC drives I use (both 6 TB and 8 TB) do have three holes on the side.
Assuming the holes on the bottom are aligned: you can remove the plastic tray insert and screw the drives into the tray from the bottom.
If you happen to have some screws that will fit...
The NAS should have come with the appropriate screws - if yours didn't you could try contacting Netgear support.
The spec is 6-32 4mm flathead/countersunk head with an 82 degree pitch. Sandshark posted an Amazon link some time ago http://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-Screw-Label-3-5-I
nch-MCP-410-00005-0N/dp/B00353EKR8
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