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Problems upgrading drives in RN 104
Hi guys, I have a RN 104 that had 4 x 2tb drives in it, and recently acquired 4 x WD Red 4tb drives. Everything was going smoothly with upgrading the drives, the first one started almost righ...
Hello SgtUnit,
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SgtUnit wrote:
The next time I tried to boot, the readynas would only say "booting..." overnight. After that I pulled the plug and took out all the drives, then added them back one by one until the same drives booted.
Do you mean you inserted the disks (old and new) one by one with the NAS powered on? Do you have full back up of the files?
Can you post a screenshot if what you get under Volumes?
Regards,
Unfortunately I don't have a backup of the files :(
I shut down the NAS first and took out all of the drives then turned the NAS on, got the 'no disk' message. Then I turned it off and added the first 4tb drive and turned it on, I got past the booting message so shut it down, added the next drive and turned it on etc. - everytime I added a drive I turned the NAS off first.
Here's a link to the Volume page - https://www.dropbox.com/s/2b41q90kizy3y0j/Screenshot%202016-01-14%2018.26.39.png?dl=0
Thank you so much for your help!
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