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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...
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.
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