Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM working good so far

making sure i did this correctly.

i upgraded to 4.1.7-T60 and factory defaulted my NV+ with 1 hitachi 2TB off the HCL and with 2 2T F4 drives and all went really well getting the 4k drives installed thanks to everyones help.

i just got my last 2TB F4 drive in and put it into the last bay and turned the nv+on.

my LED pattern show the 3 green lights for bays 1-3 lit on and bay 4 flashing quickly. The activity light blinks 2-3X per minute. The blue power light is constant.
i am able to access raidar and i have a yellow circle next to the nas mac address. I can go into setup and it says its initializing and i did get a notice that initializing has begun.

is it normal to have that yellow circle on raidar?. I dont remember that when i did the factory reset and i remember more blinking on the activity light.
how long does initializing typically take before i see the redundancy notice with time remaining for that disk?
thanks for any advice.

edit: just looked at the RAID settings tab and looks like initialization will take about 9 hours. :roll: Doh!

It can take a while. Remember 2TB disks are high capacity. It may speed up a little. Leave it to run and see how it goes.

mdgm et al

thanks for all the help getting my NV+ up to speed.
All is redundant and synced with 5.4TBs of space!

my last samsung drive i just swapped in is showing LP Stat Events of 1734. is that normal? and what the heck does that indicate?
all the other drives are 0 or single digits.
curious.
thanks again!!

Add another successful installation datapoint for this drive. 5.4TB working fine sofar. Copying data back onto the NAS now (zzzzzzzzzzzz)

I went through the steps backup, reset, etc, and converted 4x500GB to 4x2TB with new block size. Best thing is that these drives are cool running. I recall my older seagates were 114F and these are 82 to 87F (and I've been writing continually for the last 6 hours).

Sorry you haven't received a reply on if you need to do a factory reset after adding each drive. My understanding (I'm not an expert) is that you only need to do the factory reset once with the firmware that supports the 4K sector alignment. So upgrade the firmware, factory reset (save all your data before the factory reset!), then you are good to go. After adding all the drives (best done one at a time to check if the drive just added has issues), and the volume is optimal then restore your data. I ordered 9 of the Samsung 2TB F4 drives, and have been very happy so far. I also format them in Win XP first to ensure they at least do that (all of them have done fine), then put them in your NAS. I have a NV+ and recently purchased the Ultra 4 since the NV+ is a little slow if you are constantly moving lots of data, but it does fine for serving up media on you home network. I'm in the process of adding the 3rd drive now, but the LCD went wacko displaying garbage after restriping the volume and in the process of completing the migration. After it is complete, I'll shut it down and reboot and expect the LCD will be fine. The logs and status all look good. I also bought a LG BD570 blue ray player, and plan on using it to stream video from the Ultra 4 and/or the NV+. The NV+ just released new firmware that supports the 4K sector alignment looks like a huge firmware upgrade. :D

Does anyone have any idea if and when the Spinpoint F4 drives may be added to the compatibility list?

Now that 4.1.7 has been released NetGear may do some extensive testing of a number of drives. Best to stick to drives on the compatibility list for now. I wouldn't buy the HD204UI yet if you haven't already

mdgm wrote:
Now that 4.1.7 has been released NetGear may do some extensive testing of a number of drives. Best to stick to drives on the compatibility list for now. I wouldn't buy the HD204UI yet if you haven't already

Oops, already bought the Spinpoint F4 drives, and they are working good so far in my Ultra 4, but I just have some transfer rate issues to work out. It just went optimal tonight with the volume being re-sized and the last drive being re-synced. I couldn't find the WD green drives that are supported as they are all the advanced format drives now that I have found.

Your Ultra should support 4k sector disks fine. Individual disk models may have differences under the hood that render them incompatible. That's why it's best to stick to the compatibility list if possible.

Does anyone know how long we might have to wait for a result on the F4's?

I'm getting a little desperate. I was looking to upgrade, and I'm definitely not going the way of WD with all the extra work. Plus I'm using mac. Just big headache.
I've been following the posts. Had to have some sort of tech refresh, as things have moved on etc. And what should happen, one of my Seagate 1.5's decide to go mad on the Relocation Sector count. Jumped from 15 to 144 overnight. I'm just testing it with an old xp machine with seatools etc. Maybe it's ok, maybe not. But I could do with a tad more space.
The Samsung just looks about the best option that I can see. Anyone doing alright with these F4's in a Duo. There's a couple of posts with people using them in Ultras and NV's, but anyone got success with a Duo and these disks?

mutley