Rnd 2110 new disc

[mobile_engineer]

Hi
I recently bought 2 WD Red especially for NAS systems
They are both 3 TB, but now i get a message saying corrupt root when i insert one of them in the HDD port.
I already have a 1 TB disc in the port number 1.
The question will be
If i perform a complete reset of the nas, will i lose the data already on the 1 TB HDD?
Will the Nas deny access to the original drive?
if a firmware upgrade is needed, where can i find the right version?

[StephenB]

What firmware are you running now?

[Nhellie]

Performing a factory reset will delete data and config if you have any. You can find available firmware versions on the link below:

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20684/~/readynas-downloads

check your NAS though if you have a v1 and v2.

http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how-to-tell-whether-i-have-a-duo-v1-or-duo-v2-or-nv-v1-or-nv-v2/

[mobile_engineer]

Hi
It's a V1 and i'm currently running on a firmware version 4.1.13

The thing i was wondering is
if i remove the 1 TB disc and insert the 2x3 TB doing factory reset, upgrade to the latest firmware... wil the data on the 1 TB (which i removed prior to reset) be inaccessible?

[StephenB]

The most important point is that the v1 NAS can only handle 2 TB drives - not the 3 TB you bought.

[mobile_engineer]

well... that sucks quite a bit

[StephenB]

mobile engineering wrote:
well... that sucks quite a bit

Yes, esp. since you already purchased the 3 TB drives. The v1 hardware goes back to ~2004, and Netgear decided it was impractical to add support for GPT drives. The disk HCL for the v1 hardware would have given you a hint, since there are no drives there that are > 2 TB.

Options are to return your drives for 2 TB WD20EFRX, or get a new NAS (even an RN100 will outperform your RND2110).

[mobile_engineer]

that's an option to buy a new nas... and keeping the old one would just make my storage even bigger

[StephenB]

mobile engineering wrote:
that's an option to buy a new nas... and keeping the old one would just make my storage even bigger

Yes, and the new one will be faster (assuming you have a gigabit network).

You can also use the old one for backing up critical data on the new one (which is what I've done).

[mobile_engineer]

also a good solution