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FredJohn
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Jul 24, 2017

X-raid syncing a fomated used disk

I want to use a used 2Tb seagate disk to replace one of drives in a ReadyNAS NV+4000. I have only 2 2tb drives in a X-raid configuration but rotating total 4 drives ( 2 of them kept in another place ...
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JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 28, 2017

Hello FredJohn,

 

Any disk that you will use as a replacement of an existing one or adding to an existing volume of the NAS should be fresh, formatted and no partition.

 

Welcome to the community!

 

Regards,

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