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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...
I also have an Ultra 2. I want to expand the storage by adding a new HDD. It got setup automatically as a X-RAID2.
Now, can I remove one drive, reset Ultra2 and set it up as Flex-RAID, mount the second HDD that was setup as X-RAID2 and copy everything back to the Flex-RAID. Then, I remove the Flex drive, Reset Ultra2 and set up the second HDD as Flex RAID too and mount the initial Flex RAID?
This would avoid the hasle of copying all files over the ethernet onto a backup disk, which could actually be one of the 2 that are inside Ultra2 but reformatted as NTFS(?) for my W7 Ultimate PC to access it.
Thank you for your feedback.
Olivier
Now, can I remove one drive, reset Ultra2 and set it up as Flex-RAID, mount the second HDD that was setup as X-RAID2 and copy everything back to the Flex-RAID. Then, I remove the Flex drive, Reset Ultra2 and set up the second HDD as Flex RAID too and mount the initial Flex RAID?
This would avoid the hasle of copying all files over the ethernet onto a backup disk, which could actually be one of the 2 that are inside Ultra2 but reformatted as NTFS(?) for my W7 Ultimate PC to access it.
Thank you for your feedback.
Olivier
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