My NV+ went up in smoke yesterday and I'm expecting a replacement chassis from the nice people at Netgear. The RMA is showing the model as RND4000-300WWB. Is this a Readyas NV+ v1 or V2? and which Raidiator version would be the best to install? I use the Nas as a file server in a small office.Thanks in advance.

Well considering you currently have a NV+ v1, the replacement chassis would also be a NV+ v1.The NV+ v2 is going by the model number RND4000-200It can be a bit confusing.If you have a spare disk (not from your array) you could put that in the NAS and confirm it's running RAIDiator 4.1.x or earlier. I'd suggest updating the NAS to the latest firmware, verify update completed successfully, then power down, remove the spare disk and migrate your disks across: http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_migrate_disks_over_from_an_existing_readynas_to_another

Thank you. The only reason I ask is the 300 suffix, which I haven't seen on any posts but it seems logical that it will be a V1.

Well there were some minor hardware changes to the v1 over time over the years. Giving new labels to stick on these NV+ units would be helpful for NetGear troubleshooting defective units to know what hardware they are dealing with.I've written a new article How to tell whether I have a Duo v1 or Duo v2 or NV+ v1 or NV+ v2 which describes a number of ways of telling whether you have a v1 or v2 unit.

fmarchitects wrote:The only reason I ask is the 300 suffix, which I haven't seen on any posts but it seems logical that it will be a V1.That's right; a "300 suffix" unit as your replacement. I'd gotten a similar one recently and Googled about it to no avail, must be some sort of internal designation for a v1 chassis.You will see when it arrives that at least the back panel has the same connectors, though it could be an older unit with e.g. black rubber feet and/or no "Netgear" on the side panels. I was disappointed to receive such a unit but it works fine and I have no intention to sell anyway (which is when the older-looking chassis might become an issue).p.s. nice article mdgm--shows the diffs clearly.

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fmarchitects
Aspirant
Jan 11, 2012
Thanks mdgm,
I'm pretty sure I followed your migration info - I used a spare disk to upgrade the firmware, then migrated the disks, then recalibrated the fan. Frontview reported a resync of the disks and everything seems ok. I'm not sure how you check the firmware match between flash and disk?
I've migrated to User mode as per the link - does that mean setting up individual users/password logons for each machine?
Thanks
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 11, 2012
You can use the same users for all users on all machines or different users. The choice is up to you to determine what suits your requirements.

The OS/firmware re-install instructions are here: http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu
fmarchitects
Aspirant
Jan 11, 2012
Ok. So I've got my replacement chassis, updated its firmware to 4.1.8, migrated the disks from my old chassis and now I've changed the security mode to User from Share as per SPHARDY's pdf. I've created some new shares and am copying the original shares to the new shares in line with his advice and will delete the original shares when this is complete. I'm hoping that this will resolve my access problems, which are as follows (bear with me please):
I try to connect under windows 7 network and see the Readnas Hostname. When I click this it asks, sometimes I get access to all the shares without any dialog, but sometimes up pops the dreaded 'Enter Network Password' dialog. Entering the user details and password to match Frontview, brings up 'Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password'. If I restart, it's pot luck whether I can connect.
I think this has all come about by upgrading to 4.1.8 and it's driving me crazy. Does anyone know whether the issue is caused by the fact that the original shares created under 'Share' Security Mode are still there or is it a Windows 7 issue?
Thanks
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 11, 2012
You need to reset permissions on the shares.

Is your Windows username or computer name the same as any of the share names?

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