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Looking for suggestions on setting up my ReadyNAS314, and choosing the right RAID setup
I've been using my ReadyNAS 314 for a long time now, with 4 x 3TB WD drives, in a RAID 5 configuration. Recently I started running out of space, so I bought a single 10TB drive to replace one of the ...
Thanks - I was afraid that this might be the only solution, as it is quite expensive. There is no option to have one disk be separate from the others then, with a ReadyNAS?
HenrikBM wrote:Thanks - I was afraid that this might be the only solution, as it is quite expensive. There is no option to have one disk be separate from the others then, with a ReadyNAS?
No. You can not take drives out of an active RAID array without the volume being degraded. If you have a RAID 5 with 4 drives then all data is spread out over all 4 drives so that if any drive fails the data can be restored from the remaining 3 drives.
If you wish to go from 4 to 3 drives in your array then I'm afriad there is no other way than to backup destroy the volume and restore the data back.
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