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upgrading disks in RN 204
I have a question about upgrading the disks in my NAS. At this moment I'm having 4 disks in my RN204: 6Tb 3Tb 6Tb 8Tb For some reason (I think it's got something to do with a previous upgrade...
Superray wrote:
One last question: I also have another volume on a EDA500 that is attached to my NAS. If I detach it and attach it after I reinstalled everything can I just add this volume again as well without losing data? I don't want to make this a more difficult operation than it needs to be ... ;-)
You need to export it. Then reconnect it after the factory default.
Sandshark has done this, so hopefully will weigh in.
Thanks Stephen for your quick reply!
- No I am not able to change to X-raid. When I click the button it says: You are trying to change from Flex-Raid to X-Raid. It's not possible since you are using extended volumes
I haven't done this on purpose. I started with 3 x 3Tb disks and expanded a little bit during the last years. For some reason an upgrade failed and that caused X-Raid to change to Flex Raid.
- The current setup leaves me with 11Tb (10.9 to be exact). The strange thing is that I cannot delete or add disks to either one of the Raid groups. So there's only one solution left to start fresh with 3 new 14Tb disks after making a back-up of the data and a factory default reset...
One last question: I also have another volume on a EDA500 that is attached to my NAS. If I detach it and attach it after I reinstalled everything can I just add this volume again as well without losing data? I don't want to make this a more difficult operation than it needs to be ... ;-)
Thanks in advance!
Superray wrote:
One last question: I also have another volume on a EDA500 that is attached to my NAS. If I detach it and attach it after I reinstalled everything can I just add this volume again as well without losing data? I don't want to make this a more difficult operation than it needs to be ... ;-)
You need to export it. Then reconnect it after the factory default.
Sandshark has done this, so hopefully will weigh in.
Thanks for your help! You're the best! :-)
An EDA-500 can normally be disconnected and then re-connected (with power off) so long as you don't do a factory default or destroy the EDA volume while it's disconnected. While it's disconnected, the NAS will complain that it's missing, of course. I don't recommend doing that often.
You should, therefore, be able to destroy the main volume and re-create it with the EDA disconnected and then re-connect it afterward without an export/import. But here's a rub I've not tried. When you destroy the main volume, the NAS will want to find a new location for /home and /apps if there is one available. If the EDA500 were still connected, it would put them there (and you don't want that). But what it would do if there is an unmounted volume from the EDA500 at the time, I don't know. So exporting and importing is probably the safest path. That way, the NAS should re-create /home andf /apps on the new primary volume.
You export the volume under the settings wheel on the volumes page. You then power down and disconnect before you power on again. If you don't. it'll be imported right away and you have to start over. Once the new volume is created or a full factory default is performed and the new volume completes RAID sync, then you can power down, re-connect the EDA, and that volume will be re-imported. Just make sure you don't create any shares on the new volume that have the same name as one on the EDA, or the ones on the EDA will be invisible.
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