Hi guys,This has probably been asked 100 times but I cant find it in the forum..I have the ReadyNas Ultra 2. I have been using it with a single 2TB drive which is now at capacity. Moments ago the mailman brought me a new 3TB WD Red and with my geeky excitement I promptly snapped it in to the spare bay.Now, I was obviously hoping to now have a 5TB NAS with no redundancy. However, as I am now learning, with Xraid enabled, the NAS will automatically mirror the volume. (Right)?So, my question is, how do I (easily?) change (after the recovery process) change it so I have a 5TB volume with no redundancy?Thanks Guys.(PS. Sorry for the Noob question.)(PPS. I know most of you will tell me I'm an idiot for not using redundancy, but it's mainly for movies and TV, no biggy.)

1. Backup your data2. Do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything)3. A few checks will be run and then there will be a 10 minute countdown during which you can click setup in RAIDar and choose Flex-RAID and confirm your choice.4. Delete the volume5. Create a RAID-0 volume using one of the disks6. Create a RAID-0 volume just using the other disk.7. Restore data from backupIf you must do this a separate volume for each disk is the way to go. That way if a disk fails only the volume using that disk is lost.

I don't recommend a single 5 TB volume. One 2 TB volume and a second 3 TB volume is much more robust. With a single volume, any disk failure loses all your data. With two volume, you only lose the data on the failed disk. You'd access the shares the same way (the number of volumes generally only effects admin functions). The main impact is that you have to balance the storage between the two disks manually (occasionally moving shares around perhaps).If you want 2 volumes (as I suggest), then I'd do the reset with only one disk in place, choosing flexraid, and then raid 0. After it rebuilds, you can hot-insert the second, and manually create the second volume.

Thanks guys.So the reset sounds scary. I take it my files won't be affected just my NAS settings?I'd have to reconfigure everything , reinstall plugins etc?My 2 drives are now mirrored, therefore I leave one in, and pop the other back in within this 10 min window and configure the volumes as described above?Thanks again.

No, the factory reset will wipe the disks (that's why you need to make sure your backup is up to date) that are installed.All your data, settings, everything would be wiped.If you add a disk again it will need to be wiped. It is best to add it while the NAS is on.

mdgm wrote:...If you add a disk again it will need to be wiped. It is best to add it while the NAS is on.To clarify - if you have two separate volumes (one for each disk) you can replace individual disks. So if you replace the 3 TB drive, you'd lose the data on it, but not the 2 TB drive.mdgm's warning is that if you want to be very careful not to remove and reinsert a drive with the NAS running. Generally the content on it will be wiped.

Change from X-Raid2 to RAID0? [Noob Warning]

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 17, 2014
Also even ignoring the filename at the end the path you've given there does look odd.
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 18, 2014
mdgm wrote:
Also even ignoring the filename at the end the path you've given there does look odd.
You mean the mixed use of "/" and "\" ?
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 18, 2014
Yes, that looks odd to me.

I'd like to know what firmware version is running on the unit.
xeltros
Apprentice
Aug 18, 2014
It is odd indeed.
\ are used as escape character on linux (mainly to allow space in filenames)
/ is the normal separator for path in linux.

As for the starting \D-NAS\Volume1, I assumed this was the normal root directories for this NAS model (for my RN104 this would be "/data/Transmission")
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 19, 2014
\\D-NAS\Volume1 looks more like a network path for accessing from a PC, not the local path on the ReadyNAS itself.
xeltros
Apprentice
Aug 19, 2014
Yep, by adding the missing \, I agree this really looks like it indeed (provided the NAS is called D-NAS and the Share is called Volume1)
This would totally explain why transmission couldn't find the directory. But seems strange that Transmission is a folder and not a share, usually add ons create a share, may have been changed by the user though.
dhih93
Aspirant
Sep 06, 2014
Hey Guys,

Just read your follow on comments...
Still having problems, the forums and google show this is common error....
Any advice? I'm running 6.1.8 on a RN Ultra 2.
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 06, 2014
Turns out that because you weren't using the default volume 'data', some paths in settings.json needed to be changed to use the volume name you chose.

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