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Dec 24, 2015

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ReadyNAS NV+: changing hard drives

Hi, I am ancountering some problems with an upgrade of the drives in my ReadyNAS NV+. I have 4 functioning 1 TB drives, now I wonder to change all the 4 drives with three new (WD Red) 3 Tb drive...

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mdgm-ntgr
Dec 24, 2015
Your NV+ (v1) support disks up to 2TB in capacity. The disk you added is incompatible.

The 3TB disk would be seen as having <1TB capacity as your NAS does not have GPT support.

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Dec 24, 2015

Your NV+ (v1) support disks up to 2TB in capacity. The disk you added is incompatible.

The 3TB disk would be seen as having <1TB capacity as your NAS does not have GPT support.

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Dec 24, 2015

Hi enrico_nic,

As a follow-up, kindly check this link about the compatibility list of hard drives for the ReadyNAS NV+ v1.

Regards,

DaneA

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