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Easiest RAID configuration to recover data if ReadyNAS fails
Hello, I have a ReadyNAS 104 and am not able to buy another quickly if mine fails someday (the NAS, not the drives), because I live in Brazil and hardware of this type here is prohibitely expensive...
I have older, smaller hdds available (one 320gb, one 200gb). Maybe I can test your procedure with them? Like:
1) Empty the nas of drives
2) Put in the 200gb and the 320gb. This I think would create a RAID1 array of 200GB.
3) Put some data into it.
4) Unformat the two empty 3TB drives.
5) Hot-insert one of the 3TB drives into the NAS and wait for resync
6) Convert from xraid to flexraid
7) hot-insert the second 3TB drive into the nas and add it for redundancy
If someone comes around with a precise procedure I'll go with it. If not, at least I can try it before using my data drives.
1) Empty the nas of drives
2) Put in the 200gb and the 320gb. This I think would create a RAID1 array of 200GB.
3) Put some data into it.
4) Unformat the two empty 3TB drives.
5) Hot-insert one of the 3TB drives into the NAS and wait for resync
6) Convert from xraid to flexraid
7) hot-insert the second 3TB drive into the nas and add it for redundancy
If someone comes around with a precise procedure I'll go with it. If not, at least I can try it before using my data drives.
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