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njpryan
Apr 02, 2015Aspirant
Data: DEGRADED on RN104
Hi guys, extreme help required. Added a second 4TB WD RED into slot 2 of my RN104 NAS tonight and everything started off ok and then suddenly I have the following flashing at me every few seconds.. ...
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 03, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
njpryan wrote:
Much appreciate the help and suggestions. I hope the change in RAID has not effected the data in any way.
The data would still be there.
njpryan wrote:
So the disk you added was used to add redundancy, not to add an additional volume.
Was there a way to prevent this ?
You could have disabled X-RAID before adding the second disk. Too late for that now.
Could be a good opportunity to update to the latest firmware if you have not already, backup your data, do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything), disable X-RAID, destroy the volumes, create the volumes you want etc.
njpryan wrote:
Can I change the RAID back to JBOD ?
You would need to destroy the volume (deletes all data) and create new volumes.
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