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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...
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.
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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.
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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.
Hello,
which version of RAIDar are you using? RAIDar 6.0 used to have a problem where the user selection had no influence on the RAID level used (I believe the problem might still exist). You could try finding the old version RAIDar 4.3.8 or try setting up with only one disk installed as suggested by Stephen.
Bye,
Eskender
Thanks! Does seem like the issue was with RAIDar 6 that I was using. 4.3.8 was available for download and that fixed the issue.
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