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Adding another pair of drives?
Hi all,
This has been propably asked thousands of times, but I could not answer and I'm asking again. I have ReadyNAS 526X with pair of 6 TB disks. I installed another pair hoping to get 12 TB storage with mirrored disks. After inserting the disks I see 18 TB, so obviously the new pair isn't mirrored. What did I do wrong and how can I fix this? I want to see both pairs mirrored.
JuhaH wrote:
So I can leave the system as it is and if there will be singe disk failure, I should be safe. Of course I create backups into an external drive frequently.
Yes.
JuhaH wrote:
I have one disk showing occasional error messages. I might consider replacing it.
What errors are you seeing?
JuhaH wrote:
I also wonder why I get "Unrecognized server error", when updating firmware manually. I'm currently running on 6.9.3.
I haven't seen that in quite a while. What browser are you using?
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Hi JuhaH
Welcome to the Community!
Your RAID Configuration is in X-RAID that's why when it recognized the disks that has been added it joined it to the current RAID making it RAID-5 with single redundancy
If you want two RAID 1 volume on your NAS, you should disable X-RAID first and create the RAID volume manually under Flex-RAID.
If you want to get two RAID 1, you will need to destroy the volume now and recreate it, backing up your Data is a must. See Changing RAID
Hope this helps!
Regards
JuhaH wrote:
What did I do wrong and how can I fix this? I want to see both pairs mirrored.
As Marc_V says, XRAID is designed to switch to RAID-5. You still have single redundancy (protection against a single disk failure).
Did you want two RAID-1 volumes? Or RAID-10??? Maybe explain the rationale, as you might be better off with your current RAID configuration.
Thanks for Your answers,
So I can leave the system as it is and if there will be singe disk failure, I should be safe. Of course I create backups into an external drive frequently. I have on disk showing occasional error messages. I might consider replacing it.
I also wonder why I get "Unrecognized server error", when updating firmware manually. I'm currently running on 6.9.3.
JuhaH wrote:
So I can leave the system as it is and if there will be singe disk failure, I should be safe. Of course I create backups into an external drive frequently.
Yes.
JuhaH wrote:
I have one disk showing occasional error messages. I might consider replacing it.
What errors are you seeing?
JuhaH wrote:
I also wonder why I get "Unrecognized server error", when updating firmware manually. I'm currently running on 6.9.3.
I haven't seen that in quite a while. What browser are you using?
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