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ReadyNAS NV (original) exhibits strange booting behavior
I have a 7 years old NV box made by Infrant with two 250GB Seagate Barracuda drives. I hadn't used it for a while, but felt suddenly motivated to build a personal cloud. So, last weekend, I fired it u...
How big is the new drive? Also what firmware is running on the NV?
When it first came out, the NV worked with drives less than 2 TB (which was all that existed back then). 2TB drives support was added in 4.1.7 firmware, but won't work with firmware older than that. Drives > 2 TB can't be used, as the firmware doesn't support GPT formatting.
If the new drive is less than 2 TB, then perhaps try another one - since sometimes they are defective out of the box. You could also try running the manufacturer diags on the one that failed.
Though it could be other components that are failing - a bad SATA backplane or system board for example.
When it first came out, the NV worked with drives less than 2 TB (which was all that existed back then). 2TB drives support was added in 4.1.7 firmware, but won't work with firmware older than that. Drives > 2 TB can't be used, as the firmware doesn't support GPT formatting.
If the new drive is less than 2 TB, then perhaps try another one - since sometimes they are defective out of the box. You could also try running the manufacturer diags on the one that failed.
Though it could be other components that are failing - a bad SATA backplane or system board for example.
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