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Upgrade Drives on NETGEAR READYNAS DUO v2
Hi I'm looking to upgrade my NETGEAR READYNAS DUO v2 hard drives. Currently they sit in a X-RAID 2. I want to know the procedure for doing this, and if it's possible to do it as a hot swap. ...
OK Jenn, Here's what worked: I'm not a programmer, so I don't understand the underlying problems with how all this worked.
Took out both 4TB drives. Installed the 1TB WD10EARX green drive that shipped with the device into the left drive bay. Let it set itself up. Everything went ok, it set itself up into x-raid2 without any choices offered to me. I watched the goings on with Raidar 6.1. Shut it down, and let it reboot. Installed one of the 4TB WDEFRX drives. The nas recognised it, and mirrored the 1TB partition on the first drive, web page says it's redundant. Shut it down. Removed the 1TB drive. Rebooted. Still able to see it under raidar and web page. Installed the second 4TB drive into the left slot while hot. Then it took it's usual time to mirror the 1TB partition. Following directions, I waited until it was done, and shut it down. Upon reboot, it expanded the mirrored partition to it's full size. Here's the logs, though the web page here changed something that included network addresses. If you want, I can download the logs that I kept and send them to you for archiving should anyone need them, as I don't see a way to attach the logs to this post. Here's what it will allow me to post:
| Sat Feb 20 00:56:17 EST 2016 | RAID sync finished on volume C. | |
| Fri Feb 19 16:06:30 EST 2016 | Data volume has been successfully expanded to 3696 GB. | |
| Fri Feb 19 13:46:11 EST 2016 | System is up. | |
| Fri Feb 19 13:45:34 EST 2016 | Continuing with volume expansion. Do not interrupt the system during this time. When complete, email notification will be sent to the alert contact list. | |
| Fri Feb 19 13:15:48 EST 2016 | Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot. | |
| Fri Feb 19 13:14:46 EST 2016 | Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot. | |
| Fri Feb 19 13:13:59 EST 2016 | Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot. | |
| Fri Feb 19 13:13:50 EST 2016 | RAID sync finished on volume C. | |
| Fri Feb 19 11:05:47 EST 2016 | RAID sync started on volume C. | |
| Fri Feb 19 11:05:26 EST 2016 | Data volume will be rebuilt with disk 1. | |
| Fri Feb 19 11:05:18 EST 2016 | New disk detected. If multiple disks have been added, they will be processed one at a time. Please do not remove any added disk(s) during this time. [Disk 1] | |
| Fri Feb 19 11:02:52 EST 2016 | System is up. | |
| Fri Feb 19 10:01:00 EST 2016 | RAID sync finished on volume C. | |
| Fri Feb 19 06:38:42 EST 2016 | Automatic disk spin-down disabled. | |
| Fri Feb 19 06:38:40 EST 2016 | Automatic disk spin-down enabled. | |
| Fri Feb 19 06:37:17 EST 2016 | RAID sync started on volume C. | |
| Fri Feb 19 06:36:09 EST 2016 | Data volume will be rebuilt with disk 2. | |
| Fri Feb 19 06:36:00 EST 2016 | New disk detected. If multiple disks have been added, they will be processed one at a time. Please do not remove any added disk(s) during this time. [Disk 2] | |
| Fri Feb 19 06:34:58 EST 2016 | ReadyNAS is set to local user mode. | |
| Fri Feb 19 06:32:41 EST 2016 | Alert settings saved. | |
| Fri Feb 19 06:32:41 EST 2016 | Alert contact(s) saved. | |
| Thu Feb 18 17:53:28 EST 2016 | System is up. | |
| Thu Feb 18 16:08:12 EST 2016 | Alert settings saved. | |
| Thu Feb 18 16:08:12 EST 2016 | Alert contact(s) saved. | |
| Thu Feb 18 13:06:48 PST 2016 | Alert test message has been sent. | |
| Thu Feb 18 12:59:42 PST 2016 | System is up. | |
| Thu Feb 18 12:58:54 PST 2016 | Successfully upgraded ReadyNAS Photos II addon package (version: 1.0.6 --> 1.0.6) | |
| Thu Feb 18 12:56:48 2016 | Firmware on disks has been updated to match the system. |
Hi nightfly44,
Base from what you said and in the log sequence that you posted, the system appears to be fully functional now with your 2x 4TB hard drives.
Let us know if you have further questions.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
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