JBOD disk upgrade

If the cloning software you have does block level cloning and partition expansion then it might work but i'm not sure which software will support this type of partition.

Make sure you have a backup and then try it and see if the software even recognises the partition as something it can work with.

AndreasKa wrote:
If the cloning software you have does block level cloning and partition expansion then it might work but i'm not sure which software will support this type of partition. Make sure you have a backup and then try it and see if the software even recognises the partition as something it can work with.

Good advice.

But I'm not seeing any real time savings. Making a backup, installing the new drive, and restoring the backup will probably be as fast (or faster) than backing up, cloning/expanding - and won't require the experimentation.

hi all,

I followed the suggestion by AndreasKa, unmount the disk and ghost it to a new bigger capacity disk.
I was using Ghost 11.0 in DOS.
Everything went absolutely well. I mount the new disk to RN 102. and power up RN, it worked. View from the web admin page I was able to verify the content and capacity expanded.
Note this is still with JBOD configuration. I was able to view and play content from the primary and secondary disk. This is with OS 6.2.2. Seems it is able to detect extra space in the new disk and expand the partition automatically.

Having pleased with this achievement. I decided to use another drive instead since I had bought another disk for backup purpose.
So i re-ghost the old disk to this 'another' new disk.
Having repeat all the steps as first what I did. This time, RN 102 would boot up but then stalled with power LED blinking and ACT LED on continuously.
I was not able to access web admin page now. Thus, I unmount this 'another' disk and mount back with the old disk.
This time now, it still stall with power LED blinking and ACT LED on continuously.
I also tried to mount with first new disk, it also the same with blinking power LED.
I tried also to use boot menu to OS re-install, however still the same result.
The data of both disk still can be accessed from network. Using file explorer, I was able to view and play the content.
However, web admin page still cannot be accessed.

Later, I check all the disk with HDDscan, soon I found that the last 'another' disk installed, has bad sector from the SMART attribute # 196.
I suspect because of this, once I plugged the bad 'disk', OS 6.2.2 lock the system into service mode and cease to operate as normal.

Now I still can view the data from network, but USB disk plugged in won't be shown in the file explorer as it normally would.

When power on RN102 now, it would boot like normally it does, first power LED blinking, then, stop blinking, on for few seconds, then ACT LED on, then power LED blinking again continuously.

I hope this is really an OS 6 locking mechanism and I would be able to unlock it so that I would not have to copy all the files and setup all over again..