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From NV+ to 316
Hi! I have had a working NV+ for many years and just upgraded to a 316 that I bought on eBay. I have 4 2TB drives at 46% capacity of 5.44 TB in my NV+ (with very little use on them). I would like t...
PatrickJ wrote:
Hi StephenB,
Thanks for replying! What do you think about buying a 3TB disk, doing a full backup from the NV+ to the 3TB in the 316 and then vertically expanding my array using the disks in the NV+?
That won't work with XRAID. Once you have the 3 TB volume, you can't expand it unless you add 3 TB or larger disks.
The external drive is probably a better bet. You will need to do that backup through a PC, since the NV+ won't recognize a 3 TB drive (either USB or internal).
Hi StephenB,
I now have everything backed up onto the 3 tb drive via USB and popped the 4 2 tb drives into the 316. In following the instructions in the manual I'm supposed to boot into the boot menu and factory default in order to reformat the drives. This is where I'm having trouble right now.
I hold the reset button and while powering on and eventually "Boot Menu" appears, but the arrow keys that are supposed to let me navigate to the factory reset aren't doing anything. I even tried checking back after 2 hours and it still just said "Boot Menu" and navigation didn't work. No luck when I repeated the procedure either.
If it helps, I see 4 drive lights and when I attempt to boot normal, it says Err: Used Disks like I would expect.
Thanks again for your help!
Best,
Patrick Jaszewski
I now have everything backed up onto the 3 tb drive via USB and popped the 4 2 tb drives into the 316. In following the instructions in the manual I'm supposed to boot into the boot menu and factory default in order to reformat the drives. This is where I'm having trouble right now.
I hold the reset button and while powering on and eventually "Boot Menu" appears, but the arrow keys that are supposed to let me navigate to the factory reset aren't doing anything. I even tried checking back after 2 hours and it still just said "Boot Menu" and navigation didn't work. No luck when I repeated the procedure either.
If it helps, I see 4 drive lights and when I attempt to boot normal, it says Err: Used Disks like I would expect.
Thanks again for your help!
Best,
Patrick Jaszewski
PatrickJ wrote:
I hold the reset button and while powering on and eventually "Boot Menu" appears, but the arrow keys that are supposed to let me navigate to the factory reset aren't doing anything. I even tried checking back after 2 hours and it still just said "Boot Menu" and navigation didn't work. No luck when I repeated the procedure either.Odd, and perhaps worth contacting support.
Another option is to zero (or unformat) one of the drives. You can do that by connecting them to a Windows PC (a USB adapter should work). Is that perhaps an option for you?
If the drive is unformatted, the NAS has to do a factory install. So the process would be to insert just the unformatted disks(s) into the NAS, let it do its install, and then insert the rest after the NAS is operational.
Hi StephenB,
Thank you very much for replying. I would contact support, but I bought the chassis on eBay, so they won't help me.
I'll take your advice and try zeroing one of the drives via USB first and then pop the rest back in. Thank you very much!
Best,
Patrick Jaszewski
PatrickJ wrote:
I'll take your advice and try zeroing one of the drives via USB first and then pop the rest back in. Thank you very much!
Let us know how it goes,
If you have trouble finding zeroing the drive on a Windows PC, right-click on computer and choose "manage" You should see the drive in the windows disk manager, and you can right-click on each partition (windows calls it a volume I think) and delete it. That will unformat the drive, and have the same effect as zeroing it.
Also, some vendor diags have a "quick erase" test which zeros sectors at the beginning and end of the drive (leaving the rest alone). That's good enough, you don't need to zero the entire drive.
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