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RN DUO v1 - Power Glitches - SMART Information for Disk 2 - SATA reset
Hi Commuity Folks, Got a question looking for some confirmaitn i'm understanding the situation i see correctly. I have an older model ReadyNAS Duo V1 (been a great device - running for many year...
Hi okay thanks for the those points.
By the way the cause of the power glitches was a faulty power pack...
So my ReadyNAS lives on :)
Actually the power glitches only show on disk 2... but the same number of hard disk resets on both drives.
Might try and reseating disk 2... see what difference (if any) that makes before testing with the WD program.
Anyhow, yes i considered for a while now that an upgraded NAS is probably a good thing to look at.
Thanks for the suggestion, will have a closer look at the RN212.
Re migrating, is that cause the disk are not compatible? or the storage format used inst upward compatible?
NeBla wrote:
Re migrating, is that cause the disk are not compatible? or the storage format used inst upward compatible?
There are a couple of reasons. One big one is that the Duo uses an old sparc CPU, and the RN200 uses a completely different arm CPU. So the RN200 would need to completely replace the OS partition on the drives. And the new OS partition is 4 GB - while the one on your Duo is only 2 GB. So the sizes don't match.
In addition, the file system on the data volume uses btrfs on the RN200 series. The Sparc uses ext.
Hi okay thanks for the those points.
By the way the cause of the power glitches was a faulty power pack...
So my ReadyNAS lives on :)
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