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104 Second disk from redundency to capacity
Hi all, I've just installed a second WD Green 3TB drive in my 104 and it has started syncing in X-Raid. I wanted to use the second disk for capacity as it is for a media server so no real need for ba...
You should have converted to flexraid before you added the drive.
You can try to convert to flexraid after the resync - not sure if it will let you or not (that depends on whether the new disk is viewed by the software as "expanding").
However, at that point you don't have an easy way to get back to jbod. You could remove the new drive, unformat it on a PC, and try reinstalling it in slot 3. Then you should be able to create a new volume. But the existing volume will be identified as "Degraded", and slot 2 will need to kept empty.
You might try support, and see if there is something they can do.
If not, you may be better off by (a) doing a factory reset, and rebuilding from scratch or (b) buy another drive, and take the redundancy. If you do get another drive, I suggest WDC Red instead of the green. The warranty is longer, and the drives are just as "green".
You can try to convert to flexraid after the resync - not sure if it will let you or not (that depends on whether the new disk is viewed by the software as "expanding").
However, at that point you don't have an easy way to get back to jbod. You could remove the new drive, unformat it on a PC, and try reinstalling it in slot 3. Then you should be able to create a new volume. But the existing volume will be identified as "Degraded", and slot 2 will need to kept empty.
You might try support, and see if there is something they can do.
If not, you may be better off by (a) doing a factory reset, and rebuilding from scratch or (b) buy another drive, and take the redundancy. If you do get another drive, I suggest WDC Red instead of the green. The warranty is longer, and the drives are just as "green".
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