Monday, January 9, 2012

Replace the disk in NAS 110/220


So we bought a crappy disk drive from Seagate (not to mention an overpriced logic board and system that does nothing important) and probably failing after a year the most. Well, fear not, as you can change the drive with another one... (bigger?) and better.

I have not tried this myself as currently the prices have gone up for the hdds, but according to Linuxoid
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/BlackArmor-NAS-Network-Storage/BlackArmor-NAS110-How-to-replace-drive/m-p/98958#M3784

1. Disconnect power and Ethernet cables
2. If you read from the beginning of my post, I just used brutal (but reasonable) force to crack it open. If you're not prepared to do this, then this HowTo may help: http://crapnas.blogspot.com/2010/04/opening-box.html3. Pull the failed HDD out (don't pull out the remaining stuff, just the HDD)
4. Buy a new HDD (I've aways only purchased Seagate drives, but after that bullsh*t they gave me, just as a matter of principle, I purchased a 2 TB Hitachi HDD which has much more only positive reviews than Seagate's. From now on, I'm not buying anything from Seagate if they're so stupid).
5. Slide the new HDD in
6. Connect power and Ethernet cables
7. The NAS will format the drive itself (takes about 5-10 min)
8. Log in (it resets the admin password back to admin and sets IP to dynamic, check in the router which IP it got allocated)
9. Go through the rest of the shares and users setup

That's it! Not designed for the hard drive to be replaced my a*s! Couldn't be easier.

Of course you'll loose all your warranty doing the above. But I was not going to give them 1 TB of my personal stuff.

So there you have it. The NAS 110 can become the best DLNA server with a bigger and better hdd.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the info. I just upgraded my dead NAS 110 with a 2TB Red WD.

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