Ensure Administrators group have read / write permissions.Ĥ. Create a shared folder for Seagate SeaChest application and firmware files: Go to ' Control Panel' -> ' Shared Folder' - Select ' Create' -> ' Create Shared Folder' - Create a new folder called ' Seagate', and apply settings. Turn on SSH server for remote access: Go to ' Control Panel' -> ' Terminal & SNMP' -> ' Terminal' - Select ' Enable SSH Service' on port 22, and apply settings.ģ. Backup everything off the NAS, converting the sector size from 512 to 4096 is considered a destructive process, consider all data on the drives to be lost - be prepared and back it up.Ģ. 512 all in /volume all in /volume2.įirstly, we need to use a Synology account which has administrator privilege (in the ' administrators' group) to complete these steps.ġ.

They can be mixed if they are in same RAID / Volume groups. either they are all 512, or they are all 4096 but not mixed. All drives in the same RAID / Volume group must be the same sector size. NOTE: You cannot have a mix of 5 sector drives in the same RAID array. My Seagate Exos X16 drives came factory set with firmware SN03 and the 512 byte sector size, they are able to be converted to 4096 bytes, and Synology supports native 4K drives in DSM. 2 x SAMSUNG 980 PRO 1TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 SSD M.2 (MZ-V8P1T0B).1 x Synology 10Gb Ethernet and M.2 Adapter Card E10M20-T1.4 x Seagate Exos X16 SATA STD 16TB Hard Disk Drive (ST16000NM001G).64GB (2 x 32GB) vColor ECC SO-DIMM DDR4 2666MHz for Microservers (TES432G26D819K-VC).It may also work for other NAS brands, however some of the mounts in the backend OS may be slightly different. This guide should also work for all other Seagate drives that support both 5 sector sizes. I notice a lot of guides are using desktop computers / external HDD enclosures / USB adapters (that's bad) to upgrade firmware and convert the sector sizing, however you can actually do this by using the Synology NAS while the drives are installed in the NAS the easy way. I've recently purchased a new Synology RS1221+ NAS and several Seagate Exos X16 HDDs, and needed to convert them from the factory 512 byte setting, to the native 4096 byte sector size. Upgrading Firmware And Changing Sector Size On Seagate X16 Exos / IronWolf / IronWolf Pro HDDs, While Installed In Your Synology NAS

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