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Ney
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Jul 18, 2020
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Expanding from 1 to 2 disks, and creating raid1 (without losing data)

Hi,   Short question: Can I have 1 disk in my readynas ultra (running os6) with data on it, add an additional drive (same size) and change the volume to raid 1 without losing the data? (I have trie...
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    StephenB
    Jul 18, 2020
    Ney wrote:

    Hi,

     

    Short question: Can I have 1 disk in my readynas ultra (running os6) with data on it, add an additional drive (same size) and change the volume to raid 1 without losing the data? (I have tried reading the knowledge base, but cannot get a clear answer)

    Yes.  The default XRAID setting will do this.

     

    With your process, you should

    1. hot insert the second drive
    2. format it from the volume page 

    After the formatting completes, the NAS will convert the volume to RAID-1.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 18, 2020
Ney wrote:

Hi,

 

Short question: Can I have 1 disk in my readynas ultra (running os6) with data on it, add an additional drive (same size) and change the volume to raid 1 without losing the data? (I have tried reading the knowledge base, but cannot get a clear answer)

Yes.  The default XRAID setting will do this.

 

With your process, you should

  1. hot insert the second drive
  2. format it from the volume page 

After the formatting completes, the NAS will convert the volume to RAID-1.

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