How to increase RAID 1 volume capacity? [RESOLVED]

WelNas wrote:
Just because I am a nervous chap: Does this mean that my intended procedure of: 1 - Installing two fresh 2TB disks as a RAID1 volume, 2 - Sending over all the goodies from the other volume I have elsewhere, and then 3 - Installing two now empty and semi-fresh 1TB disks as a second RAID1 volume, will work?

Are you using Flex-Raid now? Also, is the other volume on the same NAS?

-If the answers are yes, you can create a new volume with the new drives, and the existing volume is untouched. You can them move folders around as you wish - but there is no need to reinstall the existing drives.

-if the existing volume is on a different NAS or PC, then your procedure will work.

-If you are using xraid now, then you will need to factory default in order to switch to flexraid, which will wipe your existing data. So you would first make a backup, and then follow your procedure (copying from the backup in your step 2).

If you are re-purposing old drives, it is a good idea to delete the existing partitions (on your PC) before installing them on the NAS. It should work w/o that, but sometimes you will see a corrupt file system error if you don't.