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t1000-forever
Feb 21, 2026Aspirant
Issue adding drive 4 to ReadyNAS nv+ v2
All I recently setup my ReadyNAS NV+ v2 from scratch with 3 3 TB Hitachi DK7SAD300 drives. The steps I followed and an issue I encountered are described in Best way to swap drives ReadyNAS nv+ ...
t1000-forever
Feb 25, 2026Aspirant
StephenB I've backed up my data, so ready for option (c).
To confirm, with all 4 drives inserted I should now boot in "Factory default" mode using the "reset" button and "backup" button while powering on? And boot with "Disk 1 LED" illuminated (for "Factory default" mode)? So there is no need to use the RAIDar software this time?
StephenB
Feb 25, 2026Guru - Experienced User
t1000-forever wrote:To confirm, with all 4 drives inserted I should now boot in "Factory default" mode using the "reset" button and "backup" button while powering on? And boot with "Disk 1 LED" illuminated (for "Factory default" mode)? So there is no need to use the RAIDar software this time?
Correct.
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