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SuperFlyBoy1
Feb 20, 2012Aspirant
Hardware Errors on Mirrored 750GB Seagate Disk on NV+(4.1.6)
Hi All, I'm running 2 x 750 GB Seagate drives (as originally supplied on the NV+) one of which is exhibiting drive errors. The NV+ reports current config as under: Online, X-RAID, 2 disks, 71...
mdgm-ntgr
Feb 29, 2012NETGEAR Employee Retired
SuperFlyBoy wrote:
The question would then be, how do I expand the capacity of the larger drives?
Replace all the lower capacity disks with 2TB disks.
SuperFlyBoy wrote:
If I add more disks of 2TB, will they start to use the full capacity of the 2TB drives?
Only if all the disks installed are 2TB disks.
SuperFlyBoy wrote:
I gather I should do the backup of the data and then reset the unit - is that the only option?
To get 4k sector partition alignment, yes.
SuperFlyBoy wrote:
mdgm wrote: For 2TB disks you should be running RAIDiator 4.1.7 or later.
Also if your 2TB disk is 4k sector you will want to do a backup followed by a factory reset.
Should one be using a disk formatted with 4k sectors? Is that the recommended method?
Disks either use 4k sectors or 512-byte sectors. If the partitions are aligned for 512-byte sectors but not for 4k sectors you will have poor write performance if you use any 4k sector disks. So if you choose any 4k sector disks you will need to make sure you are running 4.1.7 or later, backup your data and do a factory reset.
Btw if you download your logs (Status > Logs > Download all logs), extract the zip contents and take a look at volume.log what is the block size?
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