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upgrade for my Ultra 2 Plus
I have a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus [X-RAID2] Firmware: RAIDiator 4.2.31 Memory: 1024 MB [DDR3] Volume C: Online, X-RAID2, 2 disks, 58% of 1841 GB used My friend has been running dutifily and without...
nasinneed wrote:
If I upgrade the disks (I am more confident in the nas chugging > 10 years than any hard drives) I'm inclined to add them after the system is fully upgraded and allow the updated system to create partitions / filesystems / etc.
You can certainly upgrade the disks later on.
nasinneed wrote:
Plus I don't know if the OS v 4 will recognize newer hard disks.
It will recognize them, but there are some expansion limits on OS v 4. They were removed in OS 6.
Ah, I see.
If I upgrade the disks (I am more confident in the nas chugging > 10 years than any hard drives) I'm inclined to add them after the system is fully upgraded and allow the updated system to create partitions / filesystems / etc. Plus I don't know if the OS v 4 will recognize newer hard disks.
But maybe I would be making things more difficult than they are worth..
nasinneed wrote:
If I upgrade the disks (I am more confident in the nas chugging > 10 years than any hard drives) I'm inclined to add them after the system is fully upgraded and allow the updated system to create partitions / filesystems / etc.
You can certainly upgrade the disks later on.
nasinneed wrote:
Plus I don't know if the OS v 4 will recognize newer hard disks.
It will recognize them, but there are some expansion limits on OS v 4. They were removed in OS 6.
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