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Aspirant

Mar 29, 2016

Adding drives without redundancy

Howdy! I have a RN102 which I use as a media server, running Plex. It's been working great up until I ran out of drive space recently. The unit currently has a single 2TB drive in it. I have ...

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AlexPe

NETGEAR Expert

Mar 29, 2016

Hi Jason,

Welcome to the community,

As I understand your post, you have an RN102 and you are short on disk space? You also have the current raid configured as Flex correct? You've added a 3TB drive and which is in a new volume currently created on the new 3 TB hdd.

You would like to delete this volume and add the 3TB disk to the current array that has a 2TB disk in it at present? Is this also correct?

In order to get the extra TB you need to have two 3TB disk in the array. When creating the array the backend system creates an array with the 2TB disk sizes. This means when you added the 3TB disk there is 2TB that can be added to the 2TB raid and an additional 1TB that cannot be used because it is not enough to expand the array.

The best way to handle this is to migrate the data to the 3TB volume and then add a new 3TB disk to the raid.

This should give to the extra TB you are looking for.

AlexPe

mrearthpig

Aspirant

Mar 30, 2016

Hi AlexPe!

I have a 2TB drive which currently has all my media on it.

I added a 3TB drive and wanted to use the full 3TB as additional storage.

The RN102 configured both drives as RAID 1 automatically.

I don't need them to be set up as a RAID and want them to be configured as JBOD, so that I have 5TB of storage.

Can I reconfigure this without having to copy everything off of the drives first?

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 30, 2016
You would need to backup your data (you should do this regularly anyway if your data is important), disable X-RAID, destroy the volume (deletes all data), then create the volumes you want. I would suggest calling the first volume 'data' (no quotes). Then you could put the data back on.