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cowdogex2
Jul 11, 2012Aspirant
Unit Chnage out
My unit that was about 4 years old was taken out by a lightening strike. I purchased a new unit. Can I just plug my drives in and be up and running? Is there anything special to do to protect the d...
PapaBear1
Jul 11, 2012Apprentice
Your old unit would have been an NV+ V1 and silver in color. If your newly purchased unit is not also silver, it is not an NV+ and the answer is an emphatic NO. If it is silver, then I would install a scratch drive (spare drive with no data) and boot the system and let it go through the default setup (takes a little longer than 15 minutes if there is no problem). At this point you can verify the version of RAIDiator on the system either from the home page of Frontview or by using RAIDar. Verify that the version is close to the one you had previously. Considering some of the problems being encountered at this point with 4.1.9, I would not go higher than 4.1.8. (If the current version is not 4.1.8, this will have to be done by downloading 4.1.8 here. After clicking on the link, scroll down to 4.1.8 and download it to your PC. Then in Frontview, click on system and then update and then click on the local tab and point the system to the downloaded file. (I usually download them to the desktop).
If your new NV+ is black, you have the ARM based unit which is uses a totally different formatting technique and will wipe the disks and all the data when started. If that is the case, post back.
If your new NV+ is black, you have the ARM based unit which is uses a totally different formatting technique and will wipe the disks and all the data when started. If that is the case, post back.
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