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canadianken
Nov 26, 2015Aspirant
ReadyNAS NV+ Freezing/Locking up. Diagnostic Help Please!
Hey Guys, My reliable ReadyNAS has been given me issues this last week. It's a ReadyNAS NV+ v1 loaded with 4x2TB WD Green drives. FW is current at 4.1.14. I'm posting here becasue I found thi...
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 26, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Not sure why it is freezing but there are some tests you can run.
Power down the NAS, remove the disks (label order), connect them up to your PC and test them e.g. test SeaGate disks using SeaTools or WD Disks using WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics.
Perhaps also run the memory test boot menu option at least twice.
canadianken
Nov 26, 2015Aspirant
Thanks for the steps. I'm going to scan the disks one by one with WD Diagnostics, and as you suggest, self test the memory in the ReadyNas.
Will likly be 2 days before I can get through extended scans on all the drives. I will check back here once completed.
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