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ReadyNas 104 replace disk 1
Hi, I have a ReadyNAS 104 with 3 of the bays in use and I would like to add the fourth disk (I'm using RAID1). Ideally, I would like to add the new disk in bay 1 (as I assume this is the system d...
chriz_dk wrote:
I've added a screnshot of Volumes from the admin panel.
You are running FlexRAID/JBOD (one volume per disk). So all you need to do is hot-insert the additional drive in bay 4, and create a new volume (data_4) on the disk.
The NAS always uses mdadm (software RAID), even with JBOD. So it does report RAID-1 in this situation, even though there actually is no RAID redundancy.
chriz_dk wrote:
... ReadyNAS 104 with 3 of the bays in use and I would like to add the fourth disk (I'm using RAID1).
RAID1 - assuming not degraded - with three storage blocks? No....
chriz_dk wrote:
Ideally, I would like to add the new disk in bay 1 (as I assume this is the system disk where the OS is installed?)
No, this isn't ...
chriz_dk wrote:
The capacity of the new disk is 5 TB (as is the existing disk in bay 1).
Time to review your intention.
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