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dented
May 20, 2011Aspirant
Fully understanding Xraid2
Hi, I have just recieved my ReadyNAS Ultra 4 with 2 2TB drives. They are seagates so just to be safe, I am testing them with seatools, which will take many hours. While that is happening I thou...
mdgm-ntgr
May 21, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
Don't confuse the block size of your volume with 4k sector partition alignment.
Your partitions would be aligned for 4k sectors if your NAS came with 4.2.12 or later, which I think it should have. You can confirm that the NAS came with 4.2.12 or later by looking for the oldest version of RAIDiator in initrd.log. This file is included in the zip file downloaded when you go to Status > Logs > Download all Logs.
Your partitions would be aligned for 4k sectors if your NAS came with 4.2.12 or later, which I think it should have. You can confirm that the NAS came with 4.2.12 or later by looking for the oldest version of RAIDiator in initrd.log. This file is included in the zip file downloaded when you go to Status > Logs > Download all Logs.
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