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ReadyNAS NV+ v2 won't work with WD HDD's
Hi all, Here's the situation... Bought a new ReadyNAS NV+ v2 with latest firmware installed 5.3.7 Installed 2 x WD HDD's 1TB each WD10EZRX First boot-up everything went fine and was using the ...
I believe the answer to that is "no". Though you can probably attach a drive to a PC, and back up the shares over the network. This is not something I've attempted.
BlueLotus wrote: I want to know whether I can attach a tape drive to ReadyNAS?
You can create RAID-0 volumes for each drive, which amounts to the same thing. The v2 documentation calls this JBOD (http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/ ... 3Jul12.pdf).
BlueLotus wrote: I have read somewhere ReadyNAS does not support JBOD, is that right?
You need to use FlexRAID to get this mode however, which on the older products requires a factory reset/restore from backup. This is described in the manual link above.
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