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VirtualLarry said:
I popped in a white-label 4TB WD EZRZ drive, that was shucked from an unused factory-refurb WD MyBook 4TB desktop external.

The NAS initialized, I was able to upgrade the firmware twice, to get it to the newest firmware, but after all of that, it shows "Storage cannot start", "Shares cannot be created", and under the status panel, "Unused drives: 1".

Under the storage icon / tool thingy, I cannot click on "Storage Manager", it is greyed out. Nothing is listed for the drives, nor the attributes of the storage.

Is this drive perhaps black-listed in the firmware? Is that why it won't use it for shares?
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My single drive Lenovo nas did this when I put in a replacement 3TB and tried a 16TB. The unit I have seems to have a problem with never working again after a factory reset so I haven't tried that yet since I need to make sure I can recover it in case I kill it. Have you tried to do a factory reset o it?
 
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3.6TB in one of mine, tonight I will drop some more files on it to see what happens. I am not "real" concerned, but curious, and plan to respond to thread on the Lenovo forums either way. If it was a real problem I would expect more than one user to complain about it in 8 years of product life. OTOH I pust 2x 3TB in my first one, 6 years ago, and never had as much as 4TB on it.
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That thread has me intrigued as that's what my Lenovo single drive nas did. I found that the original drive had bad sectors, but even after cloning it to another known good 3tb drive, it still acts just like this when it hits over 2tb of data.
 
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I haven't had time to play with any of my NAS, "directly". I bought 5x 6TB drives, then 5 days of testing to find 2 bad, and a salty seller who wanted them all back instead of replacing the failed drives, I am again this week testing drives, so far 2 are fine, waiting on delivery of 3 more Th.

I have a pile of stuff on my desk waiting to open the PX4 back up, 2x 4GB ram, eSata to Sata cable with SSD to hang off the back, bought a 16 port switch with channel bonding, but no idea yet what OS I want to try on it.

For the IX2, I don't plan to mess with them much, but if I did I would start by plugging in a keyboard and mouse with all the usual tricks to get it to boot from a thumb drive.

Parallel Miner seemed like an OK place, contact them and see if you can get an image of the file they were putting on a 1 TB drive to go with the 10 packs.
 
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mikeford said:
I haven't had time to play with any of my NAS, "directly". I bought 5x 6TB drives, then 5 days of testing to find 2 bad, and a salty seller who wanted them all back instead of replacing the failed drives, I am again this week testing drives, so far 2 are fine, waiting on delivery of 3 more Th.

I have a pile of stuff on my desk waiting to open the PX4 back up, 2x 4GB ram, eSata to Sata cable with SSD to hang off the back, bought a 16 port switch with channel bonding, but no idea yet what OS I want to try on it.

For the IX2, I don't plan to mess with them much, but if I did I would start by plugging in a keyboard and mouse with all the usual tricks to get it to boot from a thumb drive.

Parallel Miner seemed like an OK place, contact them and see if you can get an image of the file they were putting on a 1 TB drive to go with the 10 packs.
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I'm in the same boat--I still have an 8TB drive to install, a 96TB (16TBx6) capacity test to try on one of my readynas units, restore an Intel ss4200-e that I have almost enough parts for, restore another 2 nas units, and then get this Lenovo to work.

I actually already have the image in case I need to redo it, but I'd like to avoid all that if possible. I've worked with Parallel Miner on the issue as it is a defective drive that caused the issue and they sent me a replacement drive since I could clone it. I'm sure they would offer to refund me if I sent it all back, but my goal is to put a 16TB in it so I have a single drive portable nas that's just for moving large amounts of data around, so I didn't expect it to be completely plug and play.
 
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SamirD said:
Nice! If you get that running, that will be a whole new life for it for sure. :)
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Progress.. a little anyway... got into the BIOS...
NAS see's both USB storage devices.. the onboard, which it should.. and my "xpenology" boot thumb drive..
- Disabled the onboard OS/storage , so it won't see it upon bootup, and to prevent me from overwriting it :)
- Set my SanDisk/Xpenoboot as the boot device
- Rebooted it.. Boots up as it should, in preparation of laying down the OS..
- Now I need to put the board back in the case, and go for it!
 
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I've got most if not all the parts I think I need sitting on my desk, 2x 4GB ram, estata to sata cable with a SSD, 4x 6TB drives.

Can you post, or DM if the material is touchy to put on the forum, the details of "got into the bios" and "xpenology" boot thumb drive. Did you just plug a USB keyboard and mouse into the back and hook up a display to the HDMI and press delete key?

How do I make that boot thumb drive and what size type if any do I need?

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|JosephB17331| said:
Progress.. a little anyway... got into the BIOS...
NAS see's both USB storage devices.. the onboard, which it should.. and my "xpenology" boot thumb drive..
- Disabled the onboard OS/storage , so it won't see it upon bootup, and to prevent me from overwriting it :)
- Set my SanDisk/Xpenoboot as the boot device
- Rebooted it.. Boots up as it should, in preparation of laying down the OS..
- Now I need to put the board back in the case, and go for it!
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Man if this works, then the 12-bay lenovo units running xpenology are a bargain as the real synology ones cost thousands. :)
 
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mikeford said:
I've got most if not all the parts I think I need sitting on my desk, 2x 4GB ram, estata to sata cable with a SSD, 4x 6TB drives.

Can you post, or DM if the material is touchy to put on the forum, the details of "got into the bios" and "xpenology" boot thumb drive. Did you just plug a USB keyboard and mouse into the back and hook up a display to the HDMI and press delete key?

How do I make that boot thumb drive and what size type if any do I need?

Thanks
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Which one do you have? I'm working on a PX6-300D, which doesn't have any type of video ports. I pulled the board out of the case and hooked up a usb-to-ttl serial adapter to the serial pins on the motherboard. Then I used Putty, and connected to COM3. This is what Windows assigned my new adapter. After some trial and error I got the pins connected to the right ones on the adapter so I could see an output, and it would accept input from keyboard.
 
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My focus is on the PX4-400d, which is D2701 based (I have two of them), vs the 300 which is I think a D275. The hotness of the PX12 is that the 48GB version would come with 12 NEW HGST 4TB drives, and that it supports Xeon in I think the 400r and i3 in the 450r, which might be socketed for even more fun.

I think I'm just going to have to fiddle with mine and see what I learn on the way. I'm tempted to do my hardware updates, ram, SSD, drives, plus new switch to team both GBe ports, before attempting any software changes. The cases really are trivial to open up, so not a big deal.
 
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mikeford said:
My focus is on the PX4-400d, which is D2701 based (I have two of them), vs the 300 which is I think a D275. The hotness of the PX12 is that the 48GB version would come with 12 NEW HGST 4TB drives, and that it supports Xeon in I think the 400r and i3 in the 450r, which might be socketed for even more fun.

I think I'm just going to have to fiddle with mine and see what I learn on the way. I'm tempted to do my hardware updates, ram, SSD, drives, plus new switch to team both GBe ports, before attempting any software changes. The cases really are trivial to open up, so not a big deal.
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PX4-400D's have HDMI out already on the device; there should be no need to open these up; if terminal output to the HDMI port works out of the box. In your case, it's easy enough to throw on a monitor, keyboard and mouse and boot one up to see.
 
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Have anyone been able to install Plex in the PX4-400d just to function as a server an not doing any video transcoding?
 
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Hi, I've just joined as this seems to be one of the only "live" forums currently talking about PX2-300D's.......
I have two of them, one has been running for 5 years with no issues and I have a second one which is short of a drive caddy to get it up and running to mirror the other one.
So, my question is:
Does anyone know of a source and or part numbers for a caddy?
and while I'm here, does anyone know definitively what the biggest pair of drives you can put in them with the latest firmware update?
Thank you in advance
Colin.
 
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Can someone please answer this question:
Has anyone been able to install Plex Media Server on the PX4-400D... and how?
 
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To answer the can question, search on D2701 maybe instead of px4-400d, and plex or xpenology.
 
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