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RN424 Pin3 and Power Disable in new HDD
Greetings Netgear Forums from Australia! Apologies for starting a new thread, but the two that cover the same problem have been closed. Currently my RN424 has 4 x 4TB WD Red Pro disks reachin...
I have never seen any ReadyNAS that has 3.3V going to the SATA backplane at all, and don't know why Netgear would make the 424 any different.
Thanks StephenB
Just wondering if there is anyone from Netgear willing to comment at all...
Will have to pull the trigger and test with one drive, hopefully won't need to return!
I have never seen any ReadyNAS that has 3.3V going to the SATA backplane at all, and don't know why Netgear would make the 424 any different.
Cheers SandShark
Have now hot swapped channel 4 with the HGST 10TB Helium drive.
It powered up immediately, was correctly recognised and initialised.
Estimated time to complete resync: 9hrs... and the rest.
Will post back if anything changes.
Thank you both.
Cheers
PaulOk folks
Exactly 12 hours later Channel 4 is fully resync'd, now swapping out Channel 3.
Seems that, as indicated by Stephen and SandShark, the RN424 has no voltage on Pin3, therefore has no issues running a "Power Disable" (PWDIS) enabled disk drive.
Hopefully this will be of assistance to others, keeping in mind new motherboards sporting the recent SATA standard v.3.2 (and higher), will have a 3.3V supply going to Pin3 of the SATA power connector, hence the power disable feature will be active/available on such drives.
Cheers
Paul
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