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Hi, Totally new to all this, ive bought a NAS 102 with 2x2TB drives. Its working great but Volume one of my installed drives is almost full. My qusetion is this, will the other drive be written t...
Nacla424 wrote:
Hi,
Totally new to all this, ive bought a NAS 102 with 2x2TB drives. Its working great but Volume one of my installed drives is almost full.
My qusetion is this, will the other drive be written to automatically or do i have to do something to use it?
I know it sounds like a crazy question but any help would be great.
It's not crazy.
If you use the normal XRAID setup (which is the default), then you have 2 TB of space in the volume. That's because the data is automatically mirrored (written to both drives). That gives you some protection from a single disk failure, and also gives you some ability to expand the volume later on (preserving your existing data).
So
(a) you are already using both disks.
(b) you are already out of space.
The ideal solution would be to shift to 2x4TB drives - if the system is brand new, you might be able to exchange the ones you have for bigger ones.
A second possibility is to exchange the NAS for a 4 bay model (RN104 or RN204), and migrate your existing disks to it. Then add a third 2 TB drive, which will increase your volume size to 4 TB.
The third option is to change to flexraid, and set up two 2TB volumes (one for each disk). That will destroy all the data you have on the NAS now, so you would need to restore it from backup.
Nacla424 wrote:
Hi,
Totally new to all this, ive bought a NAS 102 with 2x2TB drives. Its working great but Volume one of my installed drives is almost full.
My qusetion is this, will the other drive be written to automatically or do i have to do something to use it?
I know it sounds like a crazy question but any help would be great.
It's not crazy.
If you use the normal XRAID setup (which is the default), then you have 2 TB of space in the volume. That's because the data is automatically mirrored (written to both drives). That gives you some protection from a single disk failure, and also gives you some ability to expand the volume later on (preserving your existing data).
So
(a) you are already using both disks.
(b) you are already out of space.
The ideal solution would be to shift to 2x4TB drives - if the system is brand new, you might be able to exchange the ones you have for bigger ones.
A second possibility is to exchange the NAS for a 4 bay model (RN104 or RN204), and migrate your existing disks to it. Then add a third 2 TB drive, which will increase your volume size to 4 TB.
The third option is to change to flexraid, and set up two 2TB volumes (one for each disk). That will destroy all the data you have on the NAS now, so you would need to restore it from backup.
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