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bethjim
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May 26, 2017

How to Upgrade? - All new drives - ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition [X-RAID2]

Present config: ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition [X-RAID2] RAIDiator 4.2.30  X-RAID2, 5 disks, 66% of 3693 GB used (5 x 1 TB drives) I have a backup of my user data on another NAS   I wish to repl...
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dmahon1
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May 28, 2017
If you just want more disk space, don't you just pull one disk, replace with larger disk and wait for array to rebuild. Then repeat with each disk?
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    bethjim
    Aspirant
    May 28, 2017
    dmahon1 wrote:
    If you just want more disk space, don't you just pull one disk, replace with larger disk and wait for array to rebuild. Then repeat with each disk?

    Yep that would be one way but I really need to do some serious dusting & cleaning of the data files, create & test a new backup procedure and do a clean install of the LMS software.  I was just looking for some confirmation on the procedure to replace ALL the drives at once.

     

    If I grow it in the future I'll use the expansion method...

     

    Thanks for the reply

    Jim

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