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Not sure what do about my old ReadyNAS NV+ v2 to make use of it?
Hi Experienced Readynas folks, I have an old 4-bay ReadyNAS NV+ v2 that I brought out of retirement after not using for a long time. It booted up and seems to work fine for over a week now, with...
BrucKlin wrote:
What I would like to do - is to pull all the drives out and rebuild from scratch, replace them all at once with 6TB drives and then rebuild / reformat / reconfigure ( whatever the correct terminology is ) the whole system.
Yes, you can do that, and it will be faster than replacing them one at a time.
BrucKlin wrote:
Q1 - Is there a manual or list of steps here online that I can follow to rebuild this NAS from scratch as if I had just bought it diskless?
One thing to triple-check is whether you have the original NV+ or an NV+ v2
The original NV+ (called v1 here):
- says ReadyNAS NV+ on the front panel
- runs 4.1.x firmware
- often has other labels that say v2 or v3 - these are confusing, and should be ignored.
The NV+ v2
- says ReadyNAS NV+ v2 on the front panel
- runs 5.x firmware
Once we confirm the model, we can provide the manual links.
BrucKlin wrote:
Q2 - Can anyone estimate about how much space I will get if I can get 4 x 6TB drives in XRaid-2 configuration? Is it close to 18TB in one big volume? That would be awesome.
This depends on the model question above. The original NV+ only supports disks <= 2 TB. Larger disks will install, and appear to work, but the volume size will be very wrong.
But if you do have an NV+ v2 running 5.3.x firmware, then you will get an 18 TB RAID-5 volume.
Though you aren't asking about disk models, I'll comment on that anyway. WD Red Plus drives and Seagate Ironwolf drives are both good options. Avoid desktop-class drives and ordinary WD Reds - both use SMR technology, and don't work very well in ReadyNAS. Enterprise class drives are fine, but IMO are overkill for your model.
These 6TB drives are Western Digital Blue drives.
WDC WD60EZRZ-00RWYB1 5588 GB
All shucked from WD My Book enclosures.
Looking them up it says they are CMR drives, not SMR.
"Recording Technology: Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) Technology"
I hope they work. If not I have to toss this box.
BrucKlin wrote:
These 6TB drives are Western Digital Blue drives.
WDC WD60EZRZ-00RWYB1 5588 GB
All shucked from WD My Book enclosures.
Looking them up it says they are CMR drives, not SMR.
"Recording Technology: Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) Technology"
I hope they work. If not I have to toss this box.
The WDC blue datasheet only lists the WD60EZAZ (SMR)and WD60EZAX (CMR). But the WD60EZRZ is an old model (2015 or so), so it predates the shift to SMR desktop drives.
BrucKlin wrote:
ReadyNAS_NV+_V2
Radiator_5.3.13
Ok. Manuals are here:
- https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RND2110/ReadyNAS_Duov2_NV+v2_HW_en_23-Mar-12.pdf
- https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS%20ARM-PLATFORM%20(DUO%20V2,%20NV+%20V2)/RAIDiator%205.3%20SW%20Manual_5Sep12.pdf
The factory default procedure is in the hardware manual (look in the boot menu section). Since one drive is at least partly synced, you should probably just use the boot menu to force the clean installation.
The NAS only support SMB 1/CIFS, so you will need to enable that on Windows PCs. Microsoft has warned that at some point they'll remove SMB 1 altogether. You could still use FTP (FileZilla or WinSCP), or NFS when that happens.
You also likely have run into the SSL protocol version mismatch problem with the browsers. There is a third-party addon that can be installed to add support for TLS 1.2 You can get that here:
>The WDC blue datasheet only lists the WD60EZAZ (SMR)and WD60EZAX (CMR).> But the WD60EZRZ is an old model (2015 or so), so it predates the shift to SMR desktop drives.
Cool, so I got lucky with the drives I guess.
BrucKlin wrote:ReadyNAS_NV+_V2
Radiator_5.3.13
Ok. Manuals are here:
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RND2110/ReadyNAS_Duov2_NV+v2_HW_en_23-Mar-12.pdf
The factory default procedure is in the hardware manual (look in the boot menu section). Since one drive is at least partly synced, you should probably just use the boot menu to force the clean installation.
As I recall, you press the on button while pressing the reset button and use the backup button to select the action you want. I guess I wanted to verify what I remembered and to make sure it would not be destructive to anything or brick the box?
There is no data on any of the disks I need - I just want to clean and reset the box.
I had some doubt as it if there needed to be at least one disk with Ready NAS software on it? Sounds like not,
The NAS only support SMB 1/CIFS, so you will need to enable that on Windows PCs. Microsoft has warned that at some point they'll remove SMB 1 altogether. You could still use FTP (FileZilla or WinSCP), or NFS when that happens.
I only have Macs now. When I was testing it, it seemed that both the SMB and AFS worked OK.
You also likely have run into the SSL protocol version mismatch problem with the browsers. There is a third-party addon that can be installed to add support for TLS 1.2 You can get that here:
You mean to access data from HTTP[S]?
I don't do that or plan on doing that, so I shouldn't need the add-on, right?
I just had SMB and AFS active, and will probably turn off SMB.
Other than that, I should be set.
Any guesses as to how long it would take to install 4 new 6TB drives?
Thanks @StephenB
BrucKlin wrote:
You mean to access data from HTTP[S]?
I don't do that or plan on doing that, so I shouldn't need the add-on, right?
You do need https to access the web admin interface (the dashboard), so you should install the add-on.
BrucKlin wrote:
I only have Macs now. When I was testing it, it seemed that both the SMB and AFS worked OK.
I'm not a Mac user, but they are going down the same path.
- AFP was deprecated in macOS 10.9 (Mavericks), though it can still be enabled.
- SMB 1 was deprecated in macOS 10.15 (Catalina). You can patch /etc/nsmb.conf to allow it to still connect, but I don't think there is a way to configure it from normal user interface.
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