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Redace
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Jul 09, 2016
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Reuse disks from old NVX system in EDA500

Hi, I am about to purchase a EDA500. It will be attached to a 516. The question I have is.   I currently have some spare 3 TB disks that used to be used in a old Readynas NVX system.   Am I able...
  • StephenB's avatar
    Jul 09, 2016

    You should be able to insert them in the EDA500, and format them there.

     

    If you want, you can connect them to a PC and unformat them (or zero them) first - but you shouldn't have to do that.

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