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Formatting/Reformatting NAS 102 as JBOD
I have a ReadyNAS DUO that I use for critical redundant storage. I also have a NAS 102. I want to use this for non-critical network storage (ripped mp3's, temporary copied video's and images, etc). I...
At this point you'll need to destroy the current RAID volume - which will unfortunately delete your data. So you need to start by making a backup of anything on the NAS you want to keep there.
The process is
(a) uninstall all apps
(b) switch to flexraid on the volume page
(c) destroy the current data volume.
(d) select the first disk, and create a jbod data volume called "data"
(e) select the second disk and create a second jbod data volume.
(f) reinstall the apps
(g) restore data from backup.
My guess is that you didn't switch to flexraid before inserting the new disk.
I wish i was smart and did some research, but i just did the exact same thing today, stuck a 3tb and it switched it to raid 1. Sadly i cannot follow the steps you posted because i dont have a 3rd 3tb or greater drive that i can save all my data on. If i let the NAS resync it so that both drives have the same stuff on them, can i remove the new one, format the old, and then copy over the data from the new drive back into the old, and then reformat the new one so i can just udpate the storage capacity?
What you'll need to do is
-remove the second disk,
-put it in a PC
-format it
-copy the data from the NAS to the newly formatted drive over the network.
Then
-uninstall all apps
-switch to flexraid
-destroy the data volume
-recreate the data volume as jbod
-copy over all the data from the backup
-insert the backup disk back into the NAS
-select is, and create a second jbod volume.
That will give you an empty second volume. You can copy some shares over to the empty volume with the web ui backup jobs.
Perfect thank you very much! And also can i just do the backing up through USB? I have a sata to 3.0 connector, or better to do it through network?
It will go faster over gigabit ethernet, but you can back up over USB.
It took a bit of time to copy off the data to secondary storage and now it will take some time to copy it back where I want it, but now I have 2 3tb jbod volumes the way I wanted it.
I do have to say that clicking the 'destroy' button was a bit scary, even know what it was going to do. I wish a different word was used.
Thank you all very much.
Mike
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