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Adding new drive to readynas Ultra 2
Hello, I currently have a ReadyNas Ultra 2 with a Samsung HD204UI drive installed. The drive is full, and so I purchased the Western Digital WD30EFRX drive to go in there. At the moment, I'm th...
The decision to go with redundancy or more capacity is a tough one with a 2-slot unit. Either way you need a backup of course. I decided to go for capacity on my duo v1, but have redundancy on my nv+ and pro.
Anyway, regrettably there is no way that you can do what you want and keep your data as it is. Also, there is no way to have a single share span two volumes.
I am not sure if flex-raid lets you convert a raid-0 disk volume to raid-1 when you add a new disk. Hopefully someone who knows that for sure will chime in. Though even if that is not possibly, you could use Frontview backup to periodically backup data from one volume to the other. That is not instant (like mirroring); on the other hand it gives you a bit more protection against accidental file deletion. Instant mirroring is not always a good thing!
BTW, If you migrate everything to your 3 TB drive (using flex-raid), then once everything is successfully copied you could delete the partitions from your old drive (you do this on a PC) and then install it as your second volume. You could then move some shares to the 2 TB volume, or just use it for new shares.
Anyway, regrettably there is no way that you can do what you want and keep your data as it is. Also, there is no way to have a single share span two volumes.
I am not sure if flex-raid lets you convert a raid-0 disk volume to raid-1 when you add a new disk. Hopefully someone who knows that for sure will chime in. Though even if that is not possibly, you could use Frontview backup to periodically backup data from one volume to the other. That is not instant (like mirroring); on the other hand it gives you a bit more protection against accidental file deletion. Instant mirroring is not always a good thing!
BTW, If you migrate everything to your 3 TB drive (using flex-raid), then once everything is successfully copied you could delete the partitions from your old drive (you do this on a PC) and then install it as your second volume. You could then move some shares to the 2 TB volume, or just use it for new shares.
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