Adding a second HDD to the ReadyNAS Duo expanding total storage capacity

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Doma wrote:

I've been looking a bit on the internet, and it appears, that adding an additional disc to the 2nd bay (out of 2), it will be a disc that is used for some sort of "backup" of disc 1, in case it malfunctions.

 

1st question: is this how I am supposed to understand how the X-RAID works?

 

2nd question: in case 1st question is "yes", then how do I make my second HDD, appear as extra storage?

 

So far I've only used 1 disc (1tb), and I just added a 2nd disc (also 1 tb)... Both of the was formatted before I added them to the 2 bays and booted the NAS.

 

After a few minutes of "starting up" and "installing" and a lot of noise from the NAS, it shows (in the RAIDar programme) that disc one is ready, but the 2nd disc is resyncing.

I assume this has to do with that X-RAID thingy.

 

Will this turn out as I fear, stated above, or will this make me able to have a total of 2TB og storage on my NAS?

 

The NAS has the newest firmware RAIDiator 4.1.14

 

Looking forward to, hopefully, some help, or questions answered. :)

 

Cheers

Thomas

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X-RAID means that when you add a second disc the NAS will run RAID 1, which means that the same content will reside on both discs. This is the way I had my Duo with 2 TB discs, and I am glad i did run X-RAID.

After approx. 4 years disc one started to fail sp I pulled it and inserted another disc without losing any data. If you don't run RAID 1 you might lose data.