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Can a "downgrade" to a smaller drive cause my NV+ problems ?
Hi, In fixing my previous problems with my NV+ firmware freezes, I replaced the 1st bad drive with a good one I had lying around. It seemed to work just fine, with the sync of the replaced drive ju...
Hi StephenB,
I followed you advice and removed the 1st drive. The NV+ rebooted and did a 5-hour filesystem check. Thankfully, the check came out ok, then I started copying my Music folder to another 1 tb drive I had laying around using an external drive reader. After about 6 hours, the copy finished. I'm going to run a compare utility to make sure the backup matches then NV+. If that's ok, I'll start buying the 2 tb NAS drives (WD20EFRX) that you recommended.
Thank you again for all your help.
Mike
I followed you advice and removed the 1st drive. The NV+ rebooted and did a 5-hour filesystem check. Thankfully, the check came out ok, then I started copying my Music folder to another 1 tb drive I had laying around using an external drive reader. After about 6 hours, the copy finished. I'm going to run a compare utility to make sure the backup matches then NV+. If that's ok, I'll start buying the 2 tb NAS drives (WD20EFRX) that you recommended.
Thank you again for all your help.
Mike
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