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ReadyNAS DUO V1 - issues trying to use RAIDar on Mac or Win11
Hi All - I have kindly been given a ReadyNAS DUO V1, but am experiencing some issues when trying to use RAIDar on my Mac Studio / iMac / Win 10 / Win 11. I have installed 2 * WD RED 4TB drives in th...
So the outcome of this is that I have set up the Netgear ReadyNAS in RAID 0 configuration with two new Seagate 2TB drives. It is a very old NAS, and apparently is also very slow, so I decided to put it to use as a scratch / temporary storage drive for unimportant and non essential files.
I have managed to update the ReadyNAS to the latest firmware, but given that SMB1 is not supported by default on Windows10 or Windows11 (which I use via parallels), and is also not supported on any recent MacOS version - this unit is not something I will spend much time using.
For the interim I have purchased a 2 bay WD drive with 2 x 4TB drives configured in RAID 1 while I research the whole NAS market in more detail. In time I will likely purchase a 4 bay QNAP / Netgear or similar.
Thanks to everyone who has replied here with what is superb information. Thank you.
First of all, you are running RAIDar.
Your error is definitely on the PC - you need to go into "turn windows features on or off" and enable the SMB 1.0/CIFS client there. This is not ideal, as the protocol is old and not very secure - but your NAS is very old, and doesn't support anything newer.
But before that, you need to log into the admin interface of the NAS using your browser. You will need to use FireFox, set security.tls.version.min to 1 (browse to about:config and search for the setting).. This will allow you to connect with TLS 1.0 (another old protocol). Even with that setting change, you will need to click through a security warning. The address is https://192.168.0.37/admin.
The user name for the web interface (called "Frontview") is admin, and the default password is netgear1. You should update the firmware - the current version is 4.1.16. You are running 4.1.6, which is from 2009.
Another thing - the max disk size your Duo can handle is 2 TB. You will find that with 4 TB disks your volume size is the wrong size (and it will be smaller than 2 TB).
Many thanks Sandshark, and Stephen, and yes, despite being a bit of a geek, I am totally new to NAS stuff, learning fast!
So, I used Firefox as instructed, and so doing managed to successfully update the firmware to 4.1.16.
I will have a look through the settings, amend them as required, save, then revert that Firefox setting back to 3 instead of leaving it at 1.
And gotcha re the 4TB drive only showing 2TB. I may purchase two 2TB drives and use those in the ReadyNAS Duo, as well as looking for a 2 drive enclosure to house my two 4TB WD RED's.
Thank you very much both, pretty amazed at this level of support for a long gone legacy Netgear NAS device. I appreciate it is old but it might serve as a simple file store or Time Machine backup device.
ReflectingMe wrote:
I will have a look through the settings, amend them as required, save, then revert that Firefox setting back to 3 instead of leaving it at 1.
You'll either need to leave the setting at 1, or apply the mod to virtual.conf in this thread:
Yes, appreciate that Stephen. I meant I doubt I'll need to amend them regularly once they're set as I want them, so will revert that setting back to 3 until I need to refine the settings once more.
Also.. earlier I noticed that of the 2 disks, one green LED was on and the other green LED was flashing. Within the settings > Volumes - I noticed that 'Resync' was showing against this drive and I see now that the Volume Settings section, it says Resync 26% complete, then an estimated time before it finishes. Can I ask what is happening here Stephen, please?
I am not concerned, but curious. I thought when I ran the wizard to set X-RAID (which as I understand it, aggregates the drives into one drive) that would have been it, I guess not 🙂
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