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Interrupted resynchronisation confused Readynas
Hi, I hope someone can help because I am not sure what to do next. I recently bought a Readynas RN204. I installed 2 x 2TB Disks and copied all the data from an old storage unit to it. I th...
Hi,
Thank you for your response.
I didn't want to interrupt resynchronisation so I left it to complete (took ages).
The RAID 5 array is now resynchronised across one volume of the four disks.
Further research led me to the common reference that the RAID type of a NAS cannot be changed without destroying the volume and recreating it, so my plan is to back-up the entire NAS in two separate locations, destroy the volume and recreate the volume as a new type.
My mistake earlier, I meant to say RAID1 (mirrored) but as I have four disks, I am actually going to go for RAID10 which provides the same benefit as RAID1 whilst improving speed of access too.
So thank you all for your responses, at least it helped me understand RAID better and at least I know have a plan.
Thanks
Rob
Hi rawsystems,
If the system is in Flex-RAID, newly added disks won't automatically resync with your current volume. From there you can use the newly added disk/s to create another volume of its own which is I believe what you wanted. Try StephenB's suggestion and let us know if you have further questions.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi,
Thank you for your response.
I didn't want to interrupt resynchronisation so I left it to complete (took ages).
The RAID 5 array is now resynchronised across one volume of the four disks.
Further research led me to the common reference that the RAID type of a NAS cannot be changed without destroying the volume and recreating it, so my plan is to back-up the entire NAS in two separate locations, destroy the volume and recreate the volume as a new type.
My mistake earlier, I meant to say RAID1 (mirrored) but as I have four disks, I am actually going to go for RAID10 which provides the same benefit as RAID1 whilst improving speed of access too.
So thank you all for your responses, at least it helped me understand RAID better and at least I know have a plan.
Thanks
Rob
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