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Upgrade Disk Firmware via ReadyNAS?
Forgive my ignorance, but if I purchased a couple of Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST2000DM001 drives for my NV+.v2, am I able to upgrade the CC4H firmware by simply connecting my ReadyNAS to a Windows-ba...
Are you just putting the drives in the HP to update the firmware? Or are you wanting to host the files from the HP instead of a Readynas?
bigpallooka wrote: Further to this. I am going to put my 4 x 2TB Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 into my HP N40L Micro Server and was wondering how updating the firmware works (in this case to try and address some HDD squeaks) with the fact that these drives are xaid and full? Will Win 7 recognise the drives etc. without formatting? The data is not critical but I would like to know what I am facing in advance.
Regards
If you install ReadyNAS disks into a Windows PC, the Windows OS will detect them, and then discover that it doesn't understand the format. So it will not show the drives in "my computer", and there is no way to access any files.
However, SeaTools should find the drives, and the Seagate firmware upgrade tool should work (particularly if you are connecting the drives with SATA). And there are some third party packages that can read the drives and recover data. And windows disk manager will also let you see them, so you can delete the existing partitions, and/or reformat the drives.
But if you are wanting to migrate the data to your HP, then you are better off copying it over the network.
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