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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.
Thanks for all your input - actually when you're telling me the OS is mirrored on all disks, my initial idea does not make much sense.. I've added a screnshot of Volumes from the admin panel.
The disk is a disk I bought a while back that I haven't had the use for yet and it's probably not the best disk for a NAS, but it'll do ... when it's time to replace the disk I'll keep in mind to find some disks designed for NAS usage 🙂
All in all it's a very simple setup with no redundancy (I can afford to loose the data) and speed is not essential, and I'll just be adding the new disk in the 4th bay.
Thanks for all your help 🙂
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.
thanks, I was actually also a bit confused why the UI told me it was running RAID 1.. 🙂
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