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Upgrading 1st disk on RN214 (pure JBOD config) (English)
(Originally posted by mistake in Chinese forum, Sorry) Hi, I have a RN214 which I populated with whatever disks I had lying around in a fully JBOD config (1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 3TB respectively) when I bou...
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If you are planning to make all drives to be one volume then going X-RAID would be the way to go. However, If I understand it correctly, you are planning to have two volumes on RAID1 so if this is the case, staying on Flex-RAID is needed.
If you are upgrading Disk 1 and plan to do RAID1 with Disk 2. It would be best to do full backup on both drives then replace Disk 1 and destroy Disk2 volume then recreate the volume on RAID1 selecting Disk 1 and 2.
You will be doing this procedure on Flex-RAID.
1. Do full backup on Disk 1 and Disk 2.
2. Replace Disk 1 with new 2TB
3. Destroy Disk 2 JBOD Volume
4. Create new volume RAID 1 using Disk 1 and Disk 2
5. Transfer Backups on new RAID 1 volume
New configuration would be RAID 1 (Disk 1 and Disk 2) JBOD (Disk 3) JBOD (Disk 4)
The same wil be done if you are planning to change Disk 3 and 4 in the future.
It is best to do full backup so as no data will be left out, you don't have to worry about logins as well, it stays with the system.
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