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Can I use a Netgear RND2000 with one drive and...
I want to buy a Netgear RND2000-100UKS ReadyNAS Duo 2-BAY RND2000-100UKS and add just one Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB 3.5 inch Hard Drive WD20EARX
Can I later add an identical disc and have it recognised as a raided disc.
I believe this is possible, but slightly fear that the second drive will be recognised as EXTRA space, rather than being a raided copy of the first drive.
If I can do this then is it obvious how to configure the original disc to prepare for it being raided later.
Why do I want to do it this way, in a word "cash"!
Geoff Clout
Can I later add an identical disc and have it recognised as a raided disc.
I believe this is possible, but slightly fear that the second drive will be recognised as EXTRA space, rather than being a raided copy of the first drive.
If I can do this then is it obvious how to configure the original disc to prepare for it being raided later.
Why do I want to do it this way, in a word "cash"!
Geoff Clout
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GeoffClout wrote: I want to buy a Netgear RND2000-100UKS ReadyNAS Duo 2-BAY RND2000-100UKS and add just one Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB 3.5 inch Hard Drive WD20EARX
Yes. Do note that the Duo v1 is a discontinued product. The new Duo v2 supports disks larger than 2TB in capacity. With the Duo v1 you are limited to using 2TB disks.GeoffClout wrote:
Can I later add an identical disc and have it recognised as a raided disc.
Yes, using the default X-RAID this is what will happen.- I am in the situation, however I would like to use RAID 0 with the 2TB drives, and for the life of me I cannot work out how to configure the drive to do this.
I have 2 x 2TB WD Green drives in there, which I would like to be seen as a 4TB volume. Can anybody please help me do this? - If you have put data on the device first you would need to backup this data.
Then do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything), open RAIDar (http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20684/), click setup and choose Flex-RAID RAID-0. Do note that with a single striped RAID-0 volume if one disk fails all data would be lost so if you store important data on the NAS it'd be even more important than ever to backup that data. Better in my view to have two RAID-0 volumes (one on each disk). That way if a disk fails only the data on the RAID-0 volume utilising the disk is lost.
Welcome to the forum!I've attempted this exact scenario multiple times and am unable get it to actually take and present me with raid 0 and 4tb of space. After selecting flex-raid and raid 0 during setup, the NAS ends up changing that back to x-raid with raid 1 and just 2tb of space. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
wilmil wrote:
I've attempted this exact scenario multiple times and am unable get it to actually take and present me with raid 0 and 4tb of space. After selecting flex-raid and raid 0 during setup, the NAS ends up changing that back to x-raid with raid 1 and just 2tb of space. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
It worked the last time I tried it (some years ago). Though what I'd recommend is go with two 2TB jbod volumes. You can do that by selecting flexraid/raid-0 at setup with only 1 disk installed. Then install the second as the D volume when the setup completes.
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