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| Start with 1 drive and update the system to 6.1.6 and then do a reset. After that I can put in all the other drives do a restart and start configuring the system? |
If the system doesn't ship with 6.1.6, then it is fastest to update to 6.1.6 with a single disk, and then do a second factory reset with all disks in place. You can use a smaller scratch disk for the update, that would be faster still.
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| Is a reset needed every time I update the firmware? |
No, fortunately that is rare.
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| Has the Readynas a function for checking the discs for errors before use? |
It will run the SMART test built into the drive. Usually I run the manufacturer diags (seatools in this case) on a PC before using the drives in the NAS. That is time-consuming, but I'd rather find problems with drives before I install.
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| Can I use xraid2 mode for dual-redundancy ? |
Yes.
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| What is the best way for Transferring the data from the NV+ to the RN516? |
Running an NFS backup job on the RN516 over a gigabit network. Then edit the job to rsync, and re-run. That is faster than Windows explorer. I do this one share at a time.
