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Balancing Volumes makes drives unusable
I started a balance on my ReadyNas 10200 a couple of days ago thinking it would not take long, but it has become unusable since and I would just like to abort the whole process. I have a 2TB and 4TB drives in there (I know, should have chosen the same size... realised this afterwards) in X-Raid. The NAS is really only used as a media server so not interested in any redundancy.
Can someone help me cancel the balance? I don't have SSH set-up but if I reboot the drive I can access the web-page for a couple of minutes before it cuts out again. Is it possible for me to take out the 4TB drive and put it in my desktop computer and transfer accross my files? Then reformat the drives in the NAS? Any help is appreciated...
Once you get ssh running, you can cancel the balance using the info here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-in-Business/ssh-command-to-stop-balance/td-p/994979
Are you running 6.4.0? If so, I'd upgrade to 6.4.1 and restart after you cancel it. The NAS should then remain usable during the balance.
You can't shift the 4 TB drive to a PC, it doesn't support the BTRFS file system. The best option there is to get another 4 TB drive, and replace the 2 TB one.
Another choice is to backup the NAS, switch to flexraid and destroy the current volume. You can then remove one of the drives, or create 2 volumes (one on each).
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Once you get ssh running, you can cancel the balance using the info here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-in-Business/ssh-command-to-stop-balance/td-p/994979
Are you running 6.4.0? If so, I'd upgrade to 6.4.1 and restart after you cancel it. The NAS should then remain usable during the balance.
You can't shift the 4 TB drive to a PC, it doesn't support the BTRFS file system. The best option there is to get another 4 TB drive, and replace the 2 TB one.
Another choice is to backup the NAS, switch to flexraid and destroy the current volume. You can then remove one of the drives, or create 2 volumes (one on each).
Thanks for your reply. I was able to turn on SSH and cancel the blance. So relieved!
I will get another 4TB soon. Is my best option to make a backup and then put them in raid 0 or JBOD as I'm only interested in the actual capacity rather than having redundancy.
Thanks heaps for your response!
_Orion wrote:
I will get another 4TB soon. Is my best option to make a backup and then put them in raid 0 or JBOD as I'm only interested in the actual capacity rather than having redundancy.
jbod is better. With RAID-0 you lose everything if either disk fails. With jbod, you only lose what was on the failed disk.
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