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Aspirant

Feb 08, 2016

Upgrade HDD on RN3100

Hello, We are using RN3100 in our environement and we would like to upgrade HDD storage on the same. Details of our device are as below: Model : ReadyNAS 310...

Hard Disk

mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Feb 08, 2016

Were the 4x2TB disks in the NAS when you last did a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything)?

There is an 8TB expansion limit over the life of the volume.

Do you have a backup?

Also note that 4.2.21 was released some years ago now. 4.2.28 is the latest firmware for your NAS.

faizalktk

Aspirant

Feb 08, 2016

Hi Mdgm,

Thanks for your reply.

Our RN 3100 came with 8TB raw disk space and we never did any changes on the configuration.

Our plan is take full data backup before performing any changes.

So how i can bring this device working with 16TB raw data (4 x 4TB HDDs) instead of 8TB raw data (4 x 2TB)

I am bit confused about the 8TB expansion limit over the life of the volume in your reply. Could you please explain the same.

Also i would like to know how i can upgrade the firmware

BR,

Muhammed QTR

Doha-QATAR

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 08, 2016
faizalktk wrote:

Also i would like to know how i can upgrade the firmware

There is a check-for-updates button in the admin web ui. click on "system" on the left menu, then "update".

faizalktk wrote:

I am bit confused about the 8TB expansion limit over the life of the volume in your reply. Could you please explain the same.

If you did the initial install of the system with 2 x 2TB disks inserted, your starting volume size would have been 2 TB. The maximum volume size would have been 10 TB. Since that is less than 12 TB, your system would stop expanding when you inserted the 3rd drive (so the fourth expansion attempt would fail). A factory reset would be needed to fix this.
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Feb 08, 2016
  For the RN3100 you should look at enterpise level disks. Perhaps a WD RED Pro 4TB WD4001FFSX or a SeaGate NAS Enterprise ST4000VN0001.
  
  Note there are implications for choosing a disk outside the compatibility list, but if you do choose one outside it it is important to make a sensible choice. For rackmount that means going with an enterprise disk.
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Feb 08, 2016
    mdgm wrote:
    
    For the RN3100 you should look at enterpise level disks. Perhaps a WD RED Pro 4TB WD4001FFSX or a SeaGate NAS Enterprise ST4000VN0001.
    
    I think the seagate enterprise model would actually be the ST4000NM0124, and not the VN. The VN is positioned against the WD Reds, not the RED Pros.