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how to vertically expand a ReadyNAS 104
I bought a ReadyNAS104 a couple of years ago with one 3TB disk.
Now that that disk is full, I bought another 3TB disk to increase the capacity to 6TB.
I stuck the new hard drive into the box, and...
Perhaps it's best to not reply with "what I AM doing with my NAS" as what I want (and what I thought a NAS would do).
I have a 1 TB laptop, my wife has a 500 GB laptop, and we both have several external hard drives of varying sizes.
What I want is for a large network hard drive that can back up all these things conveniently, not having to plug things in and out of our laptops all the time.
I thought a NAS would do that, leaving me room for expansion as my finances would allow.
It appears I was wrong.
What solution is possible?
Trench_Rich wrote:
What solution is possible?
We already told you that. You have two options
- add a third drive, which would double your current capacity and preserve your RAID protection or
- Offload your data, do a factory reset, and set up the NAS as jbod. Then restore the data.
Either way you will need to spend money - either on a third internal drive or a backup USB disk. If you had asked here before you inserted the disk, we would have told you how to avoid that expense. But now that you have a RAID-1 volume, that isn't possible.
Note that if you care about data safety, you do need to back up your data to a different device. You aren't doing that, and therefore your data is always at risk of being lost. If I had to choose between the two options above, I'd go with (2) and invest in a backup USB disk that is large enough to store all my data. Backup is more valuable to me than RAID protection.
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