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Replacing all discs in unit will not increase space
Thanks for reading. Hopefully someone can help me out. Unit Info: ReadyNAS NV+ 1GB Ram Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.14 [1.00a043] Volume C: Online, RAID Level 5, 4 disks, 95% of 2760 GB used <---...
SSkwarkowski wrote:
I dont ever recall being given any options to choose which raid setup I wanted originally (with the 1TB drives). I just did the factory reset and let it do its own thing.
What happens then depends on the details.
With your NAS there is a ~5 minute window after you start the reset where you choose a RAID mode. You do that by clicking on the setup button in the the RAIDar application. After you pick a RAID mode you'd go continue with the normal NAS setup. Since you definitely are using flexraid, I think that must be what you did.
If you don't use RAIDar to set up the NAS (for instance if you just access the NAS via your browser), or the 5 minute window ends, then the system will just use the default XRAID.
FWIW, OS 6 handles this differently.
I dont ever recall being given any options to choose which raid setup I wanted originally (with the 1TB drives). I just did the factory reset and let it do its own thing.
Im backing up all my data now and going to try a factory reset again in a day or so when its all done copying. I was hoping to avoid this, but it doesnt seem like there is any other solution. :D
SSkwarkowski wrote:
I dont ever recall being given any options to choose which raid setup I wanted originally (with the 1TB drives). I just did the factory reset and let it do its own thing.
What happens then depends on the details.
With your NAS there is a ~5 minute window after you start the reset where you choose a RAID mode. You do that by clicking on the setup button in the the RAIDar application. After you pick a RAID mode you'd go continue with the normal NAS setup. Since you definitely are using flexraid, I think that must be what you did.
If you don't use RAIDar to set up the NAS (for instance if you just access the NAS via your browser), or the 5 minute window ends, then the system will just use the default XRAID.
FWIW, OS 6 handles this differently.
OK. That was the missed step originally.
When I first got this second hand, some apparent IT guy had no idea how to get it to work (thats concering hes paid for IT work and cant reset an NAS). I didnt have any windows software at the time as the NAS had some kind of custom login page, IP address, and name from some previous owner. I did the factory reset through the buttons on the unit and never used any software. I had no idea where or how I could choose the RAID mode til now.
Thank you. That helps tremendously!
Last Q since I really dont want to do this again. Whats the best RAID option for me. Its strickly a media server through Plex. No critical data and its all backed up on multiple sources anyway. I need speed, redundency and space? Thanks againXRAID is fine (and easiest to do). There's no speed advantage to picking RAID-5 via flexraid, both modes end up using the same RAID structures in your case.
FWIW, your NAS is now maxed, as it does not support drives bigger than 2 TB.
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