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RN102 hard disk compatible list
I am looking for new hard rives for my RN102. I thought the max is 2 3 TB drives, but the compatablity list on the support page now shows up to 12 TB drives are compatable. Is this so? I don't wan...
Steven B. Thank you for the information.
I installed two Constellation ES.2 ST33000650NS 3 TB drives. Now I'm having difficulty configuring. It doesn't "expand" storage. It says RAID 1 @ 3TB storage. When I first setup years ago, I could setuo to show two separate drives and then I cloned the data for redundency. Even switching between X-RAID and Flex RAID, it no longer allows me to do it. I understand RAID 1 is supposed to provide redundency, but if I simulate the loss of one drive by removing, I am unable to access the data on the other drive. When I put the other drive back in, it starts to resynch and all data is lost.
I think it may be the new firmware (6.9.5). Wondering if I revert to an earlier firmware, if I can change the configuration to show two drives? Would I lose the stored data in the process?
What you have to do is switch to flexraid and delete the current volume. Then you can recreate two new jbod volumes. FWIW, this hasn't changed, and is what you did years ago.
You do need to uninstall your apps and back up your data before you delete the volume.
If you don't have a lot of users you might as well do a factory reset with one disk in place, then switch to flexraid/jbod and then add the other.
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