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nasinneed
Aspirant
Nov 07, 2021
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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...
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Nov 07, 2021
    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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TallTomD
Aspirant
Jan 28, 2025

I performed the upgrade, and it seems to have worked.  When I attempt to logon to the NAS it prompts for password, but it will no longer accept the previous default password.  I'm trying the old default:
admin
netgear1

  Is there a new default password after the device is upgrade to firmware 6?

 

  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 28, 2025
    TallTomD wrote:


      Is there a new default password after the device is upgrade to firmware 6?

    Yes.  The default password is password.

     

    If you didn't upgrade the RAM to 2 GB, then I suggest doing that.  It is inexpensive and easy to do.

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