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Changing to Flex-Raid without RAIDar
I have a ReadyNas Ultra 6 running OS4. I'm wondering if there is any way to change the raid from xrain to flex WITHOUT using RAIDar. So far it doesn't seem like the required java runtime is on any ...
Thank you for the reply. That's I guess one reason to upgrade to OS6. Has anyone done any speed comparisons between os4 and os6 on the exact same hardware/configuration? If there's a speed improvement too, then that's another reason.
I recently upgraded to 4gb of ram and noticed that even os4 used a chunk of it for caching (saw it viewing top in the ssh during a large copy), so even more ram on this version is helpful.
Still, it would be nice to be able to change some configuration element in the ssh and reboot and then have flexraid options.
SamirD wrote:Thank you for the reply. That's I guess one reason to upgrade to OS6. Has anyone done any speed comparisons between os4 and os6 on the exact same hardware/configuration? If there's a speed improvement too, then that's another reason.
I recently upgraded to 4gb of ram and noticed that even os4 used a chunk of it for caching (saw it viewing top in the ssh during a large copy), so even more ram on this version is helpful.
Still, it would be nice to be able to change some configuration element in the ssh and reboot and then have flexraid options.
I'm wondering if there is any way to change the raid from xrain to flex WITHOUT using RAIDar. So far it doesn't seem like the required java runtime is on any system I have and I really don't want to have to install it for this one operation.
AlienBison wrote:
I'm wondering if there is any way to change the raid from xraid to flex WITHOUT using RAIDar.Not that I know of.
In my single-user situation, I found the speed of the drives to be the limiting factor on both OS4 and OS6, since the Pro is limited to SATA2. So, the speed was consistent when I switched, which was on OS 6.7.4. I've gone though many changes since, so cannot do a similar assessment with the current version of OS6.
Thank you for this really great information! Definitely helps the decision to move to OS6. :)
Thank you!
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