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blacey
Sep 29, 2012Aspirant
3 drive failures w/in 10 days of 4.2.22 upgrade? #19570015
Within two days of upgrading my Ultra 6 with 6 2 TB drives in it to 4.2.22, it marked a drive dead. I always keep a spare so I swapped the drive out and completed a cross-ship RMA with Seagate. Befo...
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 04, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
The update worked fine for me. I haven't seen any disk failures since the update. In fact I haven't had any of my SeaGate 1.5TB disks fail in my Ultra 6 since I put them in over 2 years ago now.
What startup scripts etc.? If you installed add-ons the worst that should happen is that you need to re-install those add-ons via Frontview or maybe even SSH. If you installed custom stuff via SSH then depending what you did that may/may not be broken.
Best to ensure your backup is up to date (you should do this whether or not you do a firmware update) regularly particularly before doing a firmware update.
What startup scripts etc.? If you installed add-ons the worst that should happen is that you need to re-install those add-ons via Frontview or maybe even SSH. If you installed custom stuff via SSH then depending what you did that may/may not be broken.
Best to ensure your backup is up to date (you should do this whether or not you do a firmware update) regularly particularly before doing a firmware update.
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