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Accidently added another drive to X-RAID2
Hi All,
Quick question - I have 2 x 2TB Western Digital Red drives in my ReadyNAS NV+ V2 in X-RAID.
I've added a salvaged generic Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB, forgetting that X-RAID is on, and now it has re-shaped the drives. I wanted just to transfer a few files to this drive and remove, but now it's a part of the X-RAID.
Can I remove this drive without causing any problems? Will it mess up my old 2 x 2TB setup?
Thanks in advance.
Quick question - I have 2 x 2TB Western Digital Red drives in my ReadyNAS NV+ V2 in X-RAID.
I've added a salvaged generic Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB, forgetting that X-RAID is on, and now it has re-shaped the drives. I wanted just to transfer a few files to this drive and remove, but now it's a part of the X-RAID.
Can I remove this drive without causing any problems? Will it mess up my old 2 x 2TB setup?
Thanks in advance.
3 Replies
- unfortunately, since the readynas added the drive to the volume and expanded/resync'd, if you remove the drive it will cause your volume to be non-redundant (while still staying the expanded size).
there is no way to re-shrink the volume back to 2 disks, you would have to backup all data, factory default with only the 2 disks, restore data/config. - Ohh poop! Well, my boss won't be happy.
The drive was supposed to go into another server that was going to be the backup of the NAS Drive. I think we'll just keep the drive in situ. - Do note that if you use a disk in your NAS that it is not on the compatibility list that NetGear can and will deny support if you run into issues. What you could do is get another RED disk and replace the Green disk with the RED disk.
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