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Rnd 2110 new disc
Hi
I recently bought 2 WD Red especially for NAS systems
They are both 3 TB, but now i get a message saying corrupt root when i insert one of them in the HDD port.
I already have a 1 TB disc in the port number 1.
The question will be
If i perform a complete reset of the nas, will i lose the data already on the 1 TB HDD?
Will the Nas deny access to the original drive?
if a firmware upgrade is needed, where can i find the right version?
I recently bought 2 WD Red especially for NAS systems
They are both 3 TB, but now i get a message saying corrupt root when i insert one of them in the HDD port.
I already have a 1 TB disc in the port number 1.
The question will be
If i perform a complete reset of the nas, will i lose the data already on the 1 TB HDD?
Will the Nas deny access to the original drive?
if a firmware upgrade is needed, where can i find the right version?
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- What firmware are you running now?
- Performing a factory reset will delete data and config if you have any. You can find available firmware versions on the link below:
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20684/~/readynas-downloads
check your NAS though if you have a v1 and v2.
http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how-to-tell-whether-i-have-a-duo-v1-or-duo-v2-or-nv-v1-or-nv-v2/ - Hi
It's a V1 and i'm currently running on a firmware version 4.1.13
The thing i was wondering is
if i remove the 1 TB disc and insert the 2x3 TB doing factory reset, upgrade to the latest firmware... wil the data on the 1 TB (which i removed prior to reset) be inaccessible? - The most important point is that the v1 NAS can only handle 2 TB drives - not the 3 TB you bought.
- well... that sucks quite a bit
Yes, esp. since you already purchased the 3 TB drives. The v1 hardware goes back to ~2004, and Netgear decided it was impractical to add support for GPT drives. The disk HCL for the v1 hardware would have given you a hint, since there are no drives there that are > 2 TB.mobile engineering wrote: well... that sucks quite a bit
Options are to return your drives for 2 TB WD20EFRX, or get a new NAS (even an RN100 will outperform your RND2110).- that's an option to buy a new nas... and keeping the old one would just make my storage even bigger
Yes, and the new one will be faster (assuming you have a gigabit network).mobile engineering wrote: that's an option to buy a new nas... and keeping the old one would just make my storage even bigger
You can also use the old one for backing up critical data on the new one (which is what I've done).- also a good solution
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