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wdunn
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Jul 30, 2017
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ReadyNas 102 WD Red 8TB

I have been using 2 WD Red 3TB drives with no issues in my ReadyNAS 102.  Time to upgrade.  I purchaced 2 WD easystore 8TB desktop drives, which come with a WD Red 8TB drive. Prior to removing the dr...
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    wdunn
    Aug 08, 2017

    StephenB wrote:

    I never ran 2x8TB in my RN102, but I did successfully run 8 TB + 6 TB jbod for several months (WD80EFZX+WD60EFRX)


    SOLVED:

    The 2 WD 8TB Red drives were preformatted.  There is fine print that states the NAS will not start if the drives are preformatted.  The solution was to do a Factory Default boot with only one drive installed.  Once that's reformatted, then add the second drive and sync them up (Raid-1).  Sync time was about 24 hours.

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