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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...
Ok, that's all done and everything seems to have gone well. I did also remove the 2TB drive as suggested and will keep it safe.
Just a few quick questions:
-The web config utility is showing the volume as a "RAID Level 0, Single disk". Is this what I'm after? Will I now be able to add a second drive in the future as a separate volume independent of the first? Can you confirm also that this was only possible using the Flex-raid option, and not the XRAID2 option (which, as I understand, is not possible to expand in a 2 slot unit as it automatically allocates the second drive as redundancy)?
-To make things quicker, can I directly attach my NTFS formatted external drive (which is the backup drive) to the ReadyNas through the USB3 port to transfer the data back onto it? This seems better than having to do the transfer through my PC.
-I setup a share, but the only options I got where for permissions, names etc. Can I safely assume the NAS automatically sets the share to cover the whole available storage on the drive?
-As I understand it, 3TB drives show as 2.72TB on Windows PCs. However, it is only reporting 2.70TB. Further, only 2.66TB is available as "free" space even though the share is empty. Is this normal?
Thanks again!
Just a few quick questions:
-The web config utility is showing the volume as a "RAID Level 0, Single disk". Is this what I'm after? Will I now be able to add a second drive in the future as a separate volume independent of the first? Can you confirm also that this was only possible using the Flex-raid option, and not the XRAID2 option (which, as I understand, is not possible to expand in a 2 slot unit as it automatically allocates the second drive as redundancy)?
-To make things quicker, can I directly attach my NTFS formatted external drive (which is the backup drive) to the ReadyNas through the USB3 port to transfer the data back onto it? This seems better than having to do the transfer through my PC.
-I setup a share, but the only options I got where for permissions, names etc. Can I safely assume the NAS automatically sets the share to cover the whole available storage on the drive?
-As I understand it, 3TB drives show as 2.72TB on Windows PCs. However, it is only reporting 2.70TB. Further, only 2.66TB is available as "free" space even though the share is empty. Is this normal?
Thanks again!
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