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Hello
Thank you in Advance for any help
I was given a ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] and it contains 2 1TB hard drives is there a way to use both drives? It currently shows only 1TB of space.
Thank You In advace
It's running RAID-1 which is mirrored (providing redundancy). The simplest option is to add a third 1 TB drive, which will increase the space to 2 TB. You'd be able to increase storage later on by adding a fourth drive.
You can also do a factory reset and switch to flexraid. The software manual tells you how to do that: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RND2110/RAIDiator4-1_SW_en_06Dec11.pdf
Note you will need RAIDar 4.3.8 for this (6.4 won't work). https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar Also, I strongly recommend two volumes, instead of creating a single 2 TB RAID-0 volume. Single RAID-0 volumes are very fragile - if either disk fails, then all data (on both) is lost.
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It's running RAID-1 which is mirrored (providing redundancy). The simplest option is to add a third 1 TB drive, which will increase the space to 2 TB. You'd be able to increase storage later on by adding a fourth drive.
You can also do a factory reset and switch to flexraid. The software manual tells you how to do that: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RND2110/RAIDiator4-1_SW_en_06Dec11.pdf
Note you will need RAIDar 4.3.8 for this (6.4 won't work). https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar Also, I strongly recommend two volumes, instead of creating a single 2 TB RAID-0 volume. Single RAID-0 volumes are very fragile - if either disk fails, then all data (on both) is lost.
Hello
Thank you for the quick resonce being I have nothing on the drive I will atempt the reset and use flex-raid.
So Power down Hold Reset for 30ish second and let go sounds simple.
Thank you
Dastar5626 wrote:
So Power down Hold Reset for 30ish second and let go sounds simple.
That starts the ~10 minute window - during that window you need to select flexraid using RAIDar 4.3.8 (installed on a PC).
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