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| On the Seagate site it states that the CC4H upgrade is for intel based machines - no mention of the ARM processor on the NAS, and to confuse matters further, that it should not be applied on drives intended for RAID |
I am not seeing that here:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/e ... Q/223651en You certainly need an intel machine to perform the upgrade. That is quite different from saying that it is "for intel based machines". I don't see the "not be applied on drives intended for RAID" at all. Maybe you can post a link?
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| Has the Netgear site made a mistake? |
I doubt it.
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| Will I need to perform a a firmware update to get these drives to work? |
I don't know the consequences of not running the update. Posts on the seagate site talk about chirping.
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| How can I do this on a mid 2010 iMac with no external sata connections for the drives I have? |
Not easily. If the iMac has an intel processor, you can try Seagate's bootable CD. You could also try to disconnect your current hard drive, and temporarily connect the Seagates. Or find a friend with a Windows desktop PC... Hopefully you will be lucky, and the drive will come with CC4H. Note that the affected drive model is ST3000DM001-9YN166
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| If, as I suspect the drives will work but with only a small proportion of the 3 TB visible to use... |
That would not be an expected outcome with a V2. the V1 hardware doesn't support 3 TB drives, so it would be the outcome there. That is an v1 platform limitation, there is nothing that can be done about it. However, it is not an issue on the V2 platforms, or the x86 platforms (x86 platforms need to be running 4.2.16 or later firmware).
