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READYNAS RND2000-100NAS
I've had my ReadyNAS Duo for a decade. last year the hard drive failed. I tried to recover the data but the recovery company wanted too much money. I purchased a new Western Digital drive recently an...
StevenB:
You were a fantastic help. As I moved forward your CIFS comment came into play and was a final answer to getting things up and running. Looks good now (although only 2T of the 4T drive I purchased is utilized it still is worth it). Maybe someday there will be a way I can utilize the other 2T but for now all is up, running and good. Thanks again.
I appreciate the feedback and guidance. I was able to access the unit late yesterday and I tried the default password.
Thanks
StevenB:
You were a fantastic help. As I moved forward your CIFS comment came into play and was a final answer to getting things up and running. Looks good now (although only 2T of the 4T drive I purchased is utilized it still is worth it). Maybe someday there will be a way I can utilize the other 2T but for now all is up, running and good. Thanks again.
bdrsd wrote:
although only 2T of the 4T drive I purchased is utilized
It's not as nice as using the first 2 TB if the drive is too large. Various calculations overflow, and generally you end up with a much smaller volume.
Look on the main page of Frontview (the NAS admin web ui), and check how big it thinks the volume is.
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