NV+ Caveat; watch for extra bits when you remove your NAS drawers:
As per my above post, I did my (and indeed my friends) Duos and it all worked fine and dandy. I then had the same issue with my NV+ and nonchalantly ripped 3 of the trays to bits and slapped on some silicon stuff (premium grade plumbers merchant stuff) then found that there were 'extra bits' lying on the bench; they're slightly different! I carefully dismantled the fourth tray to see how this additional bit fitted into the overall equation; however, it had flipped over before revealing itself (and thus it's position in the grander scheme of things) thus leaving me assuming it should be assembled in the fashion visible to my (by now, somewhat wine-soaked) eyes. Testing the mechanism without its button cover clipped on worked as anticipated, but the minute I clipped the cover on, the whole issue seized rock-solid. I pulled it to bits several times and became more and more mystified at what was fouling the mechanism, so I resorted to another glass of red wine to see if that helped; needless to say, it did not. Being Scottish, I decided the only solution could be to drink more red wine and invent some new (and particularly onomatopoeic) swear words; extremely satisfying though this was, it didn't really help matters at all. I then realized (after yet more wine) that the offending widget was in fact 90 deg out (call myself an inginere eh?) but due to the excess of silicon grease that I had applied (about 1L/tray) I could no longer make out the shape of it. When picking it up, I also found that it tended to adhere to my fingers, or wine glass, or my roll-up, and, after one particularly enthusiastic attempt to relocate it into the mechanism, stuck on the end of my nose.
That was just the final straw! It was time to get serious and I thus concluded that it was time for another glass of red wine - a very large one - and thus opened yet another bottle. Grand though that was, I then had the issue of finding 8 NAS trays on my bench, but after patching one of my eyes, I managed to reduce the total count to a more reasonable 4, and even managed to pop the widgets back in the orientation originally intended by Netgear. By this time, I was really developing a bit of a thirst and decided it was time to crack open a bottle of extremely strong malt whisky. Unfortunately, being Scottish, my workshop is lit by only the one candle, and due to the lack of light, I ended up pouring whisky over the ReadyNAS drawer mechanism and drinking the pot of silicon grease. This error resulted in the fortuitous discovery of an unusual new cocktail, which, once the spasms and convulsions had died down, was actually rather pleasant; just to make sure, I decided to chase it down with another double on ice (and with a cherry on a stick; purely for safety reasons).
I now have a ReadyNAS NV with the drawers that move faster than [populate the rest of the punchline yourselves] and my comms room stinks like an Islay distillery. On top of all this, the newly discovered silicon grease/whisky cocktails have made my tongue so slippy that whenever I now try to speak, I end up licking my left eyeball and thus seriously concerning my pet aardvark (Eric) with this newly acquired gymnastic prowess.
Still, my NV+ drawers are now slicker than a really very slick thingy and thus the exercise can be deemed a full success. My friends (who have just turned up wearing their white lab coats) have just arrived to take me back to my nice padded cell; but not before we all share just one more double silicon/whisky cocktail 'for the road' and stream some cool FLAC sounds from my (now somewhat slippery) NAS to my hi-fi system (and crack open some more whisky).
Bri
