NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
JuhaH
Feb 25, 2019Aspirant
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 ...
- Feb 26, 2019
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?
Marc_V
Feb 25, 2019NETGEAR Employee Retired
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
Related Content
NETGEAR Academy

Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!