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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...
Just unwrapped the NAS 214 and 2 Seagates Ironwolf 6TB - compatible per list. Issue inserting hard disks. Reason I see now is that Seagate has 2 holes in meantime (1 top, one down)
Plastic in slider has 2 ( 1 top one middle)
This makes it impossible to insert it easily. What is NETGEARS recommendation what I should do?
Thanks.
Based on https://kb.netgear.com/20641/ReadyNAS-Hard-Disk-Compatibility-List, NETGEAR's recommendation is: "To mount the disk to the desktop NAS disk tray, remove the plastic mounting bracket from the disk tray and use two screws to secure the disk to the disk tray."
As I said, HDD manufacturers have decided to remove one of the screwholes and so they did, no matter what. :D
I wonder how many PC professionals will have to find a creative solution when replacing HDDs with new HDDs in many different PC cases, NAS cases etc.
Anyway, I preferred my solution to modify the plastic bracket instead of removing it, as described above. The HDDs are very firm in place.
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