Have an R.N. 516 with 4 drives formatted for Raid5 . Bought two additional drive yesterday and intend to move to RAID 10 . I think I understand the instructions to get the machine into the right boot mode. I'm able to get into it without any trouble. Found the reset button on the back of the machine and hold it down until the boot menu option appears on the front display. Toggle down the option until I find the factory reset option then press okay. Upon launching radar on my Mac, no installations are found on network and therefore there is no option to to format for flexraid. Furthermore when I go back to the Front to lay I noticed that it is already formatting for x-RAID2. I thought there was supposed to be a 10 minute window when I can actually opt for flexraid. Is this normal readynas behaviour

nudist wrote:Using The above procedure ? No, just use the normal admin web ui. Go to the volume page, switch to flexraid, destroy the volume, etc.

With OS6 you can switch to flexraid at any time (even if the xraid volume is still syncing). Then you can destroy the data volume, and create a new one as RAID-10.

So it's more of a conversion to RAID 10 then a clean installation . I'll take a lot longer but for the moment that seems to be the simplest way over the hump Thanks

nudist wrote:So it's more of a conversion to RAID 10 then a clean installation . I'll take a lot longer but for the moment that seems to be the simplest way over the hump Thanks It is creating a new volume from scratch. It won't take longer than the old 10-minute RAIDar method. If you have apps installed, it is best to uninstall them first.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 17, 2016
With OS6 you can switch to flexraid at any time (even if the xraid volume is still syncing).

Then you can destroy the data volume, and create a new one as RAID-10.
nudist
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2016
Using The above procedure ?
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 17, 2016
  nudist wrote:
  Using The above procedure ?
  
  No, just use the normal admin web ui. Go to the volume page, switch to flexraid, destroy the volume, etc.
nudist
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2016
So it's more of a conversion to RAID 10 then a clean installation . I'll take a lot longer but for the moment that seems to be the simplest way over the hump Thanks
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 17, 2016
  nudist wrote:
  So it's more of a conversion to RAID 10 then a clean installation . I'll take a lot longer but for the moment that seems to be the simplest way over the hump Thanks
  
  It is creating a new volume from scratch. It won't take longer than the old 10-minute RAIDar method.
  
  If you have apps installed, it is best to uninstall them first.
nudist
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2016
Thanks
nudist
Aspirant
Oct 17, 2016
I'm starting to reformat my six disc array has raid 10. Will it recreate the standard ready Naz folder structure when it completes in eight hours ? Or is there additional step to do that?
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 18, 2016
  nudist wrote:
  I'm starting to reformat my six disc array has raid 10. Will it recreate the standard ready Naz folder structure when it completes in eight hours ?
  
  No, it won't. It will create .apps and home but no shares.
  
  You'll need to create the shares you need from the web ui.
nudist
Aspirant
Oct 18, 2016
Thanks all is good

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