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Having a dense moment here.....
I have a RN2120 (v6.9.3) with 4 x 1TB drives (RAID5) in and it it reaching capacity.
I have taken delivery of 4 x 4TB drives that have been previously used in a ReadyNAS.
The data on the 4TB driv...
Thank you StephenB.
I happen to know where the 4TB drives came from and they are good drives, they were replaced with 10TB drives in a 716X.
I am following your instructions in the first full paragraph, and so far spot on. A second data volume appeared, I destroyed it, then am formatting it and re-syncing, estimating 8Hrs.
I was struggling to find the right information in the manual under "Previously Formatted Disks". It tells you that you must re-format them, but does not tell you how to do this if you are expanding your system, just how to do it on a new system, or how to migrate the data.
The closest to what I'm doing is: "If you try to use previously formatted disks in a system that already contains usable disks, the system does not reformat or use the previously formatted disks. Any data on the previously formatted disks remains intact."
So you have very kindly provided the missing link!
Thank you StephenB.
I happen to know where the 4TB drives came from and they are good drives, they were replaced with 10TB drives in a 716X.
I am following your instructions in the first full paragraph, and so far spot on. A second data volume appeared, I destroyed it, then am formatting it and re-syncing, estimating 8Hrs.
I was struggling to find the right information in the manual under "Previously Formatted Disks". It tells you that you must re-format them, but does not tell you how to do this if you are expanding your system, just how to do it on a new system, or how to migrate the data.
The closest to what I'm doing is: "If you try to use previously formatted disks in a system that already contains usable disks, the system does not reformat or use the previously formatted disks. Any data on the previously formatted disks remains intact."
So you have very kindly provided the missing link!
Skeetboy1 wrote:
The closest to what I'm doing is: "If you try to use previously formatted disks in a system that already contains usable disks, the system does not reformat or use the previously formatted disks. Any data on the previously formatted disks remains intact."
I agree that they documented it poorly and created needless confusion here. The section below only applies to the case when all the disks are pre-formatted, but it (and some similar text in the hardware manuals) implies that you need to do a factory reset in order to add a disk to an existing RAID array. That's unfortunate.
http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/READYNAS_OS_6_SM_EN.pdf wrote:
If you want to use disks that were previously formatted for an operating system other than ReadyNAS OS 6 (for example, Windows, Linux, or previous-generation ReadyNAS), you must reformat the disks.You can reformat the disks by installing them, powering on the system, and performing a factory reset before continuing the configuration
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