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RN316 raid options
Just bought a new RN316 6-disk readynas on facebook. Owner bought it new but never opened the box so lucky me. I am not familiar with x-raid and my understanding of raid is more traditional. Also nev...
Thanks Stephen and Sandshark. I really must go back and read-up much more.
I thought what I wanted to do ie 2x2TB, 2x2TB, 2x3TB as 3 sets of raid1 are simple and reasonably effective. The idea is one disk in each set can fail without compromising data. I treat this 6-disk NAS as 3x 2-disk NASs like my other RN102. If that is not possible then I guess I would be better off buying 3x 2-disk NAS than one big 6-disk NAS. Frankly I bought this RN316 on a whim as it was so cheap on facebook and did not have time to investigate.
notspam wrote:
I treat this 6-disk NAS as 3x 2-disk NASs like my other RN102. If that is not possible then I guess ...
It's totally possible, and I outlined what you would need to do.
Switch to FlexRaid, destroy the current volume, and create 3 new RAID-1 volume.
Hi Stephen, I switched to flex-raid and destroyed it. Then I successfully created raid1 for 2x 2TB as VOL1. I proceeded to create another raid1 for the next 2x 2TB as VOL2 but dashboard is giving me this error. The error message is incorrect as it detects all hdds and there are no hardware errors. Not sure what to do next.
notspam wrote:
Hi Stephen, I switched to flex-raid and destroyed it. Then I successfully created raid1 for 2x 2TB as VOL1. I proceeded to create another raid1 for the next 2x 2TB as VOL2 but dashboard is giving me this error. The error message is incorrect as it detects all hdds and there are no hardware errors. Not sure what to do next.
Not an error I've seen before.
Try creating the third volume, and see if that works. Either way, I'd then power down the NAS, and remove the power cord for a couple of minutes, and then power up the NAS again.
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