Replaceing all hard drives in Readynas 3200

When you remove the drives, be sure to keep the screws. The ReadyNAS drive trays use a special size screw. Also note that the ReadyNAS 3200 is designed to have all drive bays full with drives (the semi-populated units ship with spacers installed).

You'll need to buy drives from the HCL

After moving the NAS I would put all drives in at once.

You can do a factory reset via the boot menu: http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu#section32004200

With factory fresh drives the NAS may detect that the drives are new and do the factory reset for you without needing to use the boot menu, but it doesn't hurt to use it.

If you have time after the array is synced, I would power down and run the "Disk Test" boot option.

What version of RAIDiator are you running? When you do a firmware update, the firmware is updated in the flash and then installed onto the disks. When you do a factory reset the disks are wiped and the firmware from the flash is installed. Some benefits can't be obtained without a factory reset on new firmware, so your NAS should be in a better condition than when it left the factory.

What do you intend to do with the old drives?

Welcome to the forum!

Sorry so long on a reply but this project did not actually occur until December of 2012. I did purchase 12 new 2TB drives from the HCL and placed then in and performed the reset, all looks good and it has obtained a DHCP address and will start to configure when the program provides the specs next month.

Sorry, all 12 drives had to be destroyed.

Thanks for your prior email.