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Aspirant

Jul 08, 2016

Solved

Change the RAID 5 level to RAID 6

I Have just set up my New Ready NAS 104 with 4 Hard drives.

It is set up in RAID 5 but I wanted to set it up in Raid 6. How do I do this?

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JohnLow
Jul 10, 2016
I tried the solution.
I have changed to FlexRAID but it starts up with RAID5 showing on the volumes and I cannot find a way of changing it to RAID 6

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 08, 2016
Change to flexraid, destroy the volume, and re-create it as RAID-6.

Then if you like, change back to xraid (or not).
- JohnLow
  Aspirant
  Jul 10, 2016
  I tried the solution.
  I have changed to FlexRAID but it starts up with RAID5 showing on the volumes and I cannot find a way of changing it to RAID 6
  - cpu8088
    Virtuoso
    Jul 10, 2016
    u have to destroy the volume and then select all drives and create a new volume. there will be a box to select raid6

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