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Running 1 hard disk on an ultra 2 plus.
Hi everybody Sorry if this has been covered before but I have been searching for hours and have a few questions. I have just purchased a readynas ultra 2 plus and 1 hitachi 2TB hard disk OF12115 1...
It shouldn't cause any issues, but I do recommend that you keep your backup up to date. You have no redundancy with one drive. (RAID is not a substitute for backup anyway).
G man wrote: 1. Can I run with the 1 hard disk for now and add the second in a few months? May this cause any problems?
The default xraid-2 is fine if the second disk will be for redundancy. If you intend to use the second disk for more capacity, then you will won't want xraid-2. So you will need to override the default disk configuration, using RAIDar.
G man wrote: 2. Is there anything I need to do different in the setup if I was able to use 1 hard disk?
Xraid-2 would be automatic. Flex-Raid would require some Frontview configuration when you add the second disk.
G man wrote: 3. Once I added the second hard disk, would raid be automatic or would I need to re-configure the NAS?
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