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Fastest Transfer setup - twin LAN cables or USB?
I have a READYNAS 104, it's been working fine for me for my home office, with a pair of twin drives running in RAID. (I've actually just bought a used 106 that I haven't yet set up, as I decided to a...
You don't currently see a way because you can't create a 2-drive RAID5. Once you add another drive, you'll be able to select it to add to the primary volume, and as StephenB says, that will re-configure it as RAID5.
I have two new drives in bays 5 and 6. I have clicked Expand and it seems it's now included both the spare drives automatically and it's resyncing.
RAID5 listed in the volume now too! I've been worrying about how to do it, but it's just automatic!
OK, great. That's the way it's supposed to work, good that it did for you. Netgear did do a good job of making it pretty user friendly.
Did it allow you to add both drives in one re-sync, or is it going to take two? XRAID will only do one at a time, but I've not done it in OS6 FlexRAID.
Really user-friendly in that it does it all for you, not so much, in that I didn't know the effect clicking one button would have!
Both new drives were added to bays 5 & 6, formatted, they both appeared dark grey showing they were unused. As soon as I clicked 'Expand' on my first volume, without any options, confirmations etc, it immediately took over both the new drives, changed the Raid mode to RAID5 and started a re-sync that would apparently take 172 hours!!
I'll leave it to it, but it seems I've finally got my head around this NAS system working how I want it to. I regret setting up a 4-bay NAS as two RAID1 pairs! That was a really inefficient idea, but I guess I liked the simplicity of duplicated whole drives.
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