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Installing two hard drives as seperate volumes
Hi, I have just received my ReadyNas Duo and have got a 1 x 1TB hard drive, I am waiting fot Netgear to send me a 500GB hard drive. What I want to do is leave the 1TB as a seperate volume and us...
After walking thru this process myself on a readynas duo (2xbay), once you have setup the first volume (volume c) keep an eye out for the 'add volume' tab at the top of the page to setup the second RAID 0 volume (volume D) - it's an option that you may not have seen before if you've been using xraid in a 2 x bay duo.
Sounds simple, but racing thru the instructions I missed it the first time. Once I set up volume c, i couldn't understand why the buttons and menu options for the second HDD were greyed out under volume settings.
see below:
Further to Gouge questions, I'm keen to know if I can pull out either volume's HDD then duplicate the HDD partion onto a larger disk (using HDD image and resizing apps) and reinsert it into the duo without an issue...(ie manually doing what xraid does), just so i can gradually increase the size of the HDDs without having to a factory reset each time.
Note: I have external usb HDD's taking care of the nightly backups (onto easily readable FAT32s/NTFS) and as the data isn't mission critical, xraid or raid1 isn't worth the sacrifice in space.
Also if i rebuild the volume C (due to a crash), will volume D need to be setup again or will the readynas identify it and add it by default? (i.e. has this scenario been tested?)
Sounds simple, but racing thru the instructions I missed it the first time. Once I set up volume c, i couldn't understand why the buttons and menu options for the second HDD were greyed out under volume settings.
see below:
Further to Gouge questions, I'm keen to know if I can pull out either volume's HDD then duplicate the HDD partion onto a larger disk (using HDD image and resizing apps) and reinsert it into the duo without an issue...(ie manually doing what xraid does), just so i can gradually increase the size of the HDDs without having to a factory reset each time.
Note: I have external usb HDD's taking care of the nightly backups (onto easily readable FAT32s/NTFS) and as the data isn't mission critical, xraid or raid1 isn't worth the sacrifice in space.
Also if i rebuild the volume C (due to a crash), will volume D need to be setup again or will the readynas identify it and add it by default? (i.e. has this scenario been tested?)
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