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Yoda3647
Oct 16, 2022Aspirant
Upgrading Hard drive??
Yes, I have read here in this forum to hot swap new drives. The process is 1 drive at a time waiting for the NAS to Sync the data then add the next and so on till finished. I also read that it take t...
- Oct 24, 2022
Thanks for All your help StephenB, I reached out to the person I purchased the Hard drives from and he is sending me 2 more Hard drive to replace these 2 that aren't working.
StephenB
Oct 17, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Yoda3647 wrote:
Do I have anything to worry about???
This doesn't look right. Was the drive previously in a ReadyNAS?
- Yoda3647Oct 17, 2022Aspirant
I purchased all 6 - Of my Drives used to up grade from 6 - 3TB to 6 - 6TB drives the first one installed without a problem. The guy I purchased them from had me wait till he formatted them. Should I try to reformat the drive again??
- StephenBOct 17, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Yoda3647 wrote:
I purchased all 6 - Of my Drives used to up grade from 6 - 3TB to 6 - 6TB drives the first one installed without a problem. The guy I purchased them from had me wait till he formatted them. Should I try to reformat the drive again??
Actually you should unformat them (easiest to do with a Windows PC).
But if you can select the newly added drive in the NAS and format it from the web ui, then try that.
- Yoda3647Oct 17, 2022Aspirant
Okay I could have selected it and formatted but posted here first to make sure doing things right, but did take it back out and tried another one of the 6TB and it is syncing now will try to format that one after syncing is done will post to let you know what happens
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