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I had been using the readynas with 250Gb drives a number of years ago and upgraded to a windows server with 12x1Tb drives. I came back to the RNR4000 a month ago seeing what the maximum drive size it would accept and sure enough bought 4 2Tb drives to go in to use this as a backup device for the server. only to find it kept failing the memory test. I have purchased a 1gb stick of pc333 memory and it seems to go through the memory test fine with 4 HDD lights solid and blue led blinking. I just cant get it past that phase, the instructions say press the power button to powercycle the unit but the one on the front does nothing and when cycling with the switch on the back it goes back into the memory test again. I have tried this with and without the drives in place and always the same. the buttons on the front work, I am able to press them on boot up for the various options and the hdd lights blink at the time intervals they are supposed to.
The next issue I am sure is because its just in the memory test mode but just in case it isn't, the network ports seem to be dead, I plug a cable into the switch but no lights come on to say there is a connection.
Any help in getting this up and running would be greatly appreciated.
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Could be time to get a new ReadyNAS. Your unit is very, very old.
- Thank you, but I did day at the end
"Any help in getting this up and running would be greatly appreciated."
Your comment doesnt help me do This. - *say
To find out whether your new disks are the root cause for your issue I would go the painful way to setup the nas with one of the old 250GB disk only.
Should you get the same bad behaviour right at the beginning of that process I would assume there is something wrong with the nas, but not with the disks.
You might then reconsider what to do with that old buddy.
Assumed you will be successful with the 250GB disk you can start adding/replacing the new disks one-by-one and see how it goes.
aye, thank you, but its doing the same thing with or without disks, getting to the end of the successful memory check but just wont powercycle from the power button on the front. sadly I don't have any of the original 250gb drives, I send those to be degaussed.
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