RN104 - New setup after firmware crash

[K3N8]

Hi,

I've had a crash after upgrading the firmware to 6.4.0 on my RN104. It was stuck on booting. The guys from Netgear were very helpful, but to no avail. I had to do a factory-default on a new 3TB disk. The RN104 now runs JBOD with a single 3TB disk. The data is restored on the single disk. I will format the other drives and set it up RAID5.

What is the best thing to do:

1. Put in the disks on at a time;

2. Add all the disks at the same time when the RN104 is down.

Please give me your thoughts.

Regards,

Alexander

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

Don't format the drives ahead of time, it just gets in the way.  What you can do is unformat them. In Windows you do this with the disk manager - right-clicking on every volume (which amount to a partition) and deleting it.  That allows the NAS to directly add them to the array w/o your needing to confirm.

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@K3N8 wrote:

What is the best thing to do:

1. Put in the disks on at a time;

2. Add all the disks at the same time when the RN104 is down.

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There is an option 3 of course - add them all at once while the NAS is running.

I'd add them one at a time with the NAS running.  The NAS doesn't really care (it will add them one at a time to the array no matter what you do).  However, if something goes wrong, it is easier to diagnose if you add one at a time and wait for the resync to complete.

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

Don't format the drives ahead of time, it just gets in the way.  What you can do is unformat them. In Windows you do this with the disk manager - right-clicking on every volume (which amount to a partition) and deleting it.  That allows the NAS to directly add them to the array w/o your needing to confirm.

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@K3N8 wrote:

What is the best thing to do:

1. Put in the disks on at a time;

2. Add all the disks at the same time when the RN104 is down.

---

There is an option 3 of course - add them all at once while the NAS is running.

I'd add them one at a time with the NAS running.  The NAS doesn't really care (it will add them one at a time to the array no matter what you do).  However, if something goes wrong, it is easier to diagnose if you add one at a time and wait for the resync to complete.