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Best way to swap drives ReadyNAS nv+ v2
I know that my ReadyNAS nv+ v2 is no longer supported, however I would like to use it as a place to store data that can easily be reproduced. I've had it fitted from day 1 with two 3 TB Western Digit...
Great thanks for the feedback. Good to know that with my approach, I can always fallback to the WD drives if something goes wrong.
The WD drives have always worked flawlessly (and still do today). My aim though here has been to setup the ReadyNAS from scratch, I have had each of the Hitachi drives in a PC to verify them using CrystalDiskInfo. All reported good health, should I still run some tests using the WD Kitfox tooling?
And no, I did not pay attention to the hardware compatibility list. I figured the Hitachi's will work fine in a NAS, as they're old models they must be CMR (SMR had yet to be invented). Not sure though if they were specifically designed for NAS or Desktops, I got them through someone who was selling 8 of them from his previous NAS though. Let me know your thoughts though.
Ultimately, the Hitachi's will either work or not; if they don't I will simply put the WD drives back in the NAS.
should I still run some tests using the WD Kitfox tooling?
Up to you, but I always run both a full non-destructive read test and a full write-zeros test before I put a disk in the NAS.
My aim though here has been to setup the ReadyNAS from scratch
Is there a reason you need to do that? Full OS partition, or something similar?
If not, I'd just expand by adding two of the Hitachi disks.
If you do start over, you will need to use a browser that still supports TLS 1.0. For instance, FireFox with the security.tls.version.min set to 1 (browse to about:config and search for the setting).
After it is set up again, you'd want to install the add-on that adds TLS 1.2 support. The add-on link is:
- https://github.com/rdynsxtrs/r5bin/blob/master/apache2/Apache2_2.2.34-arm-0.0.1.bin
Let me try WD Kitfox on one of the Hitachi drives.
I've seen performance degrade over the years somehow. So I prefer to start from scratch. Having said that, while creating my backup over 1 Gbps ethernet and SMBv1 I was able to reach 550 Mbps using robocopy for large files.
Good points about TLS support, can definitely handle that. Will look into adding TLS 1.2 support once setup, I doubt there's any tricks to add SMBv2/v3 support?
I doubt there's any tricks to add SMBv2/v3 support?
Unfortunately not. There is experimental smb v2 support that can be enabled with ssh, but I have no idea what vulnerabilities it might have.
First drive successfully completed a full scan and full erase using WD Kitfox. Will do the same for the other two.
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