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What is the best and also safest method to gradually upgrade the disks to larger capacity ones in the RN214?
Currently I have 4x2TB in RAID 5 using X-RAID. I am starting to run out of disk space (still managing) but I guess the upgrade would be unavoidable soon... I have just upgraded to the latest 6.8.0-RC1 firmware.
Thanks in advance,
Miklos
Miklos wrote:What is the best and also safest method to gradually upgrade the disks to larger capacity ones in the RN214?
Currently I have 4x2TB in RAID 5 using X-RAID. I am starting to run out of disk space (still managing) but I guess the upgrade would be unavoidable soon... I have just upgraded to the latest 6.8.0-RC1 firmware.
Do a full backup first... then you can either:
- swap each disk for a new one but only one disk at a time, and wait for it to complete resync (will take several hours each disk)
- or swap all disks at once and restore the backup - I am pretty sure this will in fact be faster, and also safer (you will still have all you data in tact on the old disks)
