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Untamedgeek
Jan 29, 2017Aspirant
READYNAS NV+ v2 HDD upgrade issues
Good morning everyone I was hoping to not have to ask as I'm guessing it already been asked. However after some time looking I'm not able to find answer for my needs (or own personal stupidity). ...
StephenB
Jan 29, 2017Guru - Experienced User
If the volume is unprotected, then your data is at risk. You shouldn't pull drive 1.
What firmware is currently running on your NAS?
Also, it would be wise to make sure you have an up-to-date backup.
Untamedgeek
Jan 30, 2017Aspirant
Hi StephenB
Thanks for the responce. Firmwares up to date (was the first thing I checked but I will check it agian just to be sure tonight). A back is run every night to an external drive and that is being upgraded to a larger on to.
I think what I was expecting is that by replacing bay 2 it would resync, I could then repalce bay 1 and this would then recover/resync from bay 2. Giving both drives the new 3 TB size.
However from what I've read it sounds like it will be a factory rest using the back for the data and config.
- StephenBJan 30, 2017Guru - Experienced User
Untamedgeek wrote:
Thanks for the responce. Firmwares up to date (was the first thing I checked but I will check it agian just to be sure tonight).
Note that if you are running 4.1.x firmware you have a v1 NAS, not a v1. A v1 is limited to 2 TB disks - it won't detect the 3 TB drive size correctly, and therefore won't resync.
There's a lot of confusion here, due to some poor branding decisions Netgear made some years ago. One reason I ask about firmware version is to verify that the NAS platform is what the owner thinks it is.
- UntamedgeekJan 30, 2017Aspirant
Totally understand teh ask and the NAS is a v2 and I know this can take up to 4TB and the firmware is 5.3.12
- StephenBJan 30, 2017Guru - Experienced User
Good. Perhaps try pulling disk 2 and reinserting (with the NAS running) and see if take-2 works.
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