Situation
Four Seagate (Barracuda 7200.11 Firmware SD15 Model Number ST3500320AS )500GB Drives were installed into the NAS and the display stated "booting" but failed to do so after thirty minutes plus. The NAS had a flashing blue power light and nothing else. The drives were known to be working.
Investigation
A little digging around it seems it was the hard drives at fault and a firmware update (to SD1A) is required to get the Netgear RND4000 ReadyNAS NV+ to be able to use the drives.
Solution
Seagate provide the necessary update utility but also on an ISO. Did not use the windows utility but the ISO after installing each drive into a base unit making sure no others were connected and completing the firmware update, I refitted the hard drives to the NAS and after a 3-5 minutes the NAS booted and was accessible remotely using the provided utility on the shipped Netgear CD.
The Firmware update download page is here
Four Seagate (Barracuda 7200.11 Firmware SD15 Model Number ST3500320AS )500GB Drives were installed into the NAS and the display stated "booting" but failed to do so after thirty minutes plus. The NAS had a flashing blue power light and nothing else. The drives were known to be working.
Investigation
A little digging around it seems it was the hard drives at fault and a firmware update (to SD1A) is required to get the Netgear RND4000 ReadyNAS NV+ to be able to use the drives.
Solution
Seagate provide the necessary update utility but also on an ISO. Did not use the windows utility but the ISO after installing each drive into a base unit making sure no others were connected and completing the firmware update, I refitted the hard drives to the NAS and after a 3-5 minutes the NAS booted and was accessible remotely using the provided utility on the shipped Netgear CD.
The Firmware update download page is here
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