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ownaish
Oct 25, 2010Aspirant
ReadyNAS NV+ and 2TB disks?
Hi there I'm wondering whether I can really expand my ReadyNAS NV+ now with 2TB disks. At the time where I bought it (some years ago) the highest supported disk size was 750GB. I do have two of them....
joudbren
Oct 25, 2010Tutor
Yep, with the new beta bios. 4.1.7 T60. I have four new Seagate 2GB LP's also flashed with the new CC35 firmware in the drives and no issues so far with my NV+ but I still have a bunch of testing to do before it goes into production. I originally bought 4 x 2GB WD drives but after reading all the hassles people had to go through to disable the constant head parking on the WD's I returned them (unopened) to my supplier and bought the Seagates. So far so good. Very quiet, very cool, no vibration and no clicking heads that I can detect using the new CC35 drive firmware.
I haven't tested automatic drive spindown yet after xx hours of no activity but I'll post back once I've confirmed it's not a problem. My original Samsung 1GB drives spun down with no issues in my other NV+ so I'm hoping the same for the Seagates in the new box.
You'll have to do a factory reset once you flash the new NV+ firmware and then install the new drives (and of course making sure you have a backup of your data from the old drives). If you go with the Seagates I highly recommend you update their firmware to CC35 if they don't already have that. Cheers!
James
I haven't tested automatic drive spindown yet after xx hours of no activity but I'll post back once I've confirmed it's not a problem. My original Samsung 1GB drives spun down with no issues in my other NV+ so I'm hoping the same for the Seagates in the new box.
You'll have to do a factory reset once you flash the new NV+ firmware and then install the new drives (and of course making sure you have a backup of your data from the old drives). If you go with the Seagates I highly recommend you update their firmware to CC35 if they don't already have that. Cheers!
James
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