Added 2nd Larger Disk

You'd need to upgrade your 1TB drive to 3 TB to get the additional space. After that, you'd have 3 TB of total space, and protection against a single drive failure.

The other option would be to buy a backup USB drive, copy all your data to it, and then do a factory reset (which will wipe your data) and use flexraid. Then you would end up with 4 TB of total space but no protection against drive failures.

Since you are using your NAS for primary storage, you really need a backup anyway. Without one you will lose your data - it is only a mater of when.

i have a D drive on my pc with the same DSLR photos, so they are mirrored to the NAS on each boot. the videos i dont mind i can download them again, but i just dont have 1TB spare to back them up somewhere else at the moment.. so basically i cant do anything without loosing all the data?

what if i remove the 1TB disk for now, would the 3TB take over and give the extra space?

or what if i take the 3TB out and add it to my PC and format it, then copy NAS to the 3TB and then set it to flexiraid ( might need a guide ) then copy data back to NAS then add the 3TB?

wifiuk wrote:
or what if i take the 3TB out and add it to my PC and format it, then copy NAS to the 3TB and then set it to flexiraid ( might need a guide ) then copy data back to NAS then add the 3TB?

That would work. There's a guide in the software manual - http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/ ... 5Sep12.pdf

The factory reset is described in the hardware manual - http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/ ... Mar-12.pdf