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Are Infrant Readynas NV+ V2 and Netgear NV+ Compatible?
Hello,
I have what appears to be a dead Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ (V2) here. (I'm assuming it's a V2 because the P/N on the back is "RNV2-S2-0000". I received a few warning emails about the temperature being high on one of the drives, and then the unit died completely. A new power supply did not bring it back to life - the fan just blasts and the front screen lights up with a black bar across the bottom. My main goal at this point is to get my data off the device - Netgear tech support told me that if I get another chassis, I should be able to put my drives in it and get my data. I found a Netgear NV+ on ebay - I'm wondering if that would be compatible with what I have? This seems like an easier solution than trying to have netgear recover my data, right?
Any input would be greatly appreciated!
Greg
I have what appears to be a dead Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ (V2) here. (I'm assuming it's a V2 because the P/N on the back is "RNV2-S2-0000". I received a few warning emails about the temperature being high on one of the drives, and then the unit died completely. A new power supply did not bring it back to life - the fan just blasts and the front screen lights up with a black bar across the bottom. My main goal at this point is to get my data off the device - Netgear tech support told me that if I get another chassis, I should be able to put my drives in it and get my data. I found a Netgear NV+ on ebay - I'm wondering if that would be compatible with what I have? This seems like an easier solution than trying to have netgear recover my data, right?
Any input would be greatly appreciated!
Greg
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- You have a NV+ (v1 - silver chassis). You need an Infrant/NetGear ReadyNAS NV+ (v1). The NetGear ReadyNAS NV+ v2 (charcoal chassis) was released November 13th 2011 and uses a different RAID format. You can't migrate disks from the NV+ (v1) to the v2.
Take a look at http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_migrate_disks_over_from_an_existing_readynas_to_another
Also have a read of How to tell whether I have a Duo v1 or Duo v2 or NV+ v1 or NV+ v2 - Oh great, v1 is probably harder to find than v2...
I see on ebay a RNV1-S2-0000 - would that be compatible? - v1 is harder to find new, but second hand most used units on eBay are compatible. All Infrant NV+ units are v1 so yes that would be compatible. All Infrant units are Sparc units.
Put a spare disk in the Sparc unit and make sure the firmware is at least as up to date as in your current unit before migrating the disks across. - You note that you can't migrate between a ReadyNAS NV+ and a ReadyNAS NV+ V2 due to the different architectures. I have NV+ and have just bought a NV+ V2 and I want to move the disks across but I am not concerned about losing the data. Is that the same as migrating or when you refer to migrating, does that suggest leaving all intact? I note that when I put the disks in the V2, I get a corrupt root error. Is there a way forward for me?
Cheers,
Gary - Do a factory default via the boot menu as described in the hardware manual: http://www.ReadyNAS.com/docs
This will wipe the disks - Yep, tried that and it still came up as corrupt root. Stupidly decided to allow it to do a disk check and it is at 6% and taking a long time. I suspect I am just wasting my time with that.
- Sounds like the disks will need to be hooked up to a PC and the partitions deleted then disks put back in the NAS and a factory default done. This is likely also due to the difference in the RAID format.
- Yep, that thought had occured to me. I did exactly that to disk one but not two and three as I figured that the boot partition or whatever it is on these would be contained on disk one. There were three partitions on the disk so I just removed all to leave it in virgin state. I should have done all three disks, just laziness on my part :-( Can I safely cancel this disk check which is now only 20%? I assume I would need to unplug it if it is safe to cancel. Thanks for you help, greatly appreciated.
- Yes you can cancel the check.
- There were no partitions on the second disk, all I could do with it was to initialise it (within Windows 7), plugged it back into the NAS and it is now happily installing the Xraid2 system. I will expand with the third disk later. All looks good from here, thanks again.
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