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expanding readynas NV+ horizontaly
I'm looking to expand my readynas. It currently configured as X-Raid with 2 disks, both 1TB drives. I have a 3rd 1TB drive I would like to add. I understand the system adds the drive and ...
CWatts wrote:
Do I have to prepare the new drive before adding it? Does it need to be wiped/formatted?
No. With your NAS you can just hot-insert it.
Much appreciated.
So the data on this drive will not interfere with the current raid, it will be just be assumed and overwritten.
Thanks
CWatts wrote:
So the data on this drive will not interfere with the current raid
Correct. It will be synced to the array, which will then be converted from 2x1TB RAID-1 to 3x1TB RAID-5. Your volume size will double.
During the processing, the performance will be slower than usual.
Thanks.
Disk is added and sync is in progress
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