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Adding a drive to ReadyNAS 204 #26877295
I have a readyNAS 204 with 2 drives set as raid1, can I add a 3rd drive and use it as a separate drive?
If you dont want the new drive in the same volume , switch off X-RAID and add the drive . You can create a new volume and use the drive .
Hi jboroden,
Are you still having issues adding a new drive in your ReadyNAS system?
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
I am getting conflicting answers, some people say I can add a 3rd separate drive, and phone support said it was not possible?, I do not have confidence in the phone support as they had to keep passing me on to other people and it was very hard to understand them (strong accent)
jboroden, I see a senior support technician has just reviewed your case and emailed you.
Here is what he said:
"I've just reviewed your case.
By default the system is configured to use X-RAID. Using X-RAID, when you add a third disk it will be added to the volume so you would have a single three disk RAID-5 volume.
To add it as a separate drive you must first disable X-RAID2 to switch to Flex-RAID. See http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22812/~/how-do-i-change-the-volumes-on-my-readynas-os-6-storage-system-from-x-raid2-to
Once you are using Flex-RAID you could then insert the disk and create a new volume using the disk you just added: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23131/~/how-do-i-create-a-volume-on-my-readynas-os-6-storage-system%3F
I hope this answers your query."
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