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HH93
Aspirant
Oct 07, 2015

Combination of 6TB and 4TB disks inserted to RN104

Hello,   I need a small piece of info confirming;   I have a four bay system Ready NAS 104. bays 1 & 2 have 6TB HHD and are set up as X-Raid. I have added two more HDD to bays 3 & 4 butthey a...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 23, 2015
HH93 wrote:

 

So the question now is - once I have backed up the Data do I just perform a system reset using the button called "Perform Factory Default" from the Settings Tab of the System Page to make all four HDD into one big X-Raid ???

 

Yes

HH93's avatar
HH93
Aspirant
Oct 23, 2015

Thanks - I'll let you know how it goes once I've finished backing up - be a long process though with 4TB of data to copy.

 

 

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    HH93
    Aspirant
    Dec 03, 2015

    Ok that worked but only after i updated the firmware to the Beta of 6.4.1 as the USB kept loosing connection and coming back as read only.

     

    Anyway after a few weeks of waiting for the unit to do itss thing over the network.

     

    So after all that copying, backing up and a factory reset which also took quite a while I have a setup with 6Tb, 6Tb, 4Tb, 4Tb as RAID5 & X-Raid giving me 12.75Tb which is ample.

     

    thanks very much

     

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