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ReadyNAS Duo -- Dead or Slow?
We have about 40 ReadyNAS Duo systems with smaller disks. They are being phased out. The idea was to get them ready and give them to local groups that could use the equipment.
I took one of ...
Kudos to BrianL for link to the article. As StephenB points out the process is a PITA. Although we got the system live and operational the time involved was in excess of an hour.
Looks like it will be more effective to toss the devices than try and repurpose them.
Thanks for you help.
Hi Bains1,
The drives need to be formatted using the device boot menu procedure. Check this article for more information.
Hope this helps!
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Kudos to BrianL for link to the article. As StephenB points out the process is a PITA. Although we got the system live and operational the time involved was in excess of an hour.
Looks like it will be more effective to toss the devices than try and repurpose them.
Thanks for you help.
Bains1 wrote:
Kudos to BrianL for link to the article. As StephenB points out the process is a PITA. Although we got the system live and operational the time involved was in excess of an hour.
If you have a USB-SATA adapter, you can unformat the disks assembly-line fashion, put them back into a duo as they finish, and power that duo back up. That would be much faster than using the paper clips.
Fastest of all is to offer the duos diskless. That also ensures no information leakage from anything you might have left on the drives.
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