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kllngtme
Sep 02, 2011Aspirant
4k sector support.
Due to having both HD's fail in my DUO at the same time, I have replaced the drives with new ones, 2 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS. They are on the HCL so I know they work with the readynas. F...
mdgm-ntgr
Sep 17, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
On Sparc ReadyNAS (e.g. Duo), a factory reset after upgrading to 4.1.7 is needed to get 4k sector alignment. Only having new disks in the NAS is one way to do a factory reset.
For x86 where you can replace the disks one by one to get 4k sector alignment there may be some point to what you're suggesting.
For x86 where you can replace the disks one by one to get 4k sector alignment there may be some point to what you're suggesting.
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