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Jan 03, 2014Aspirant
JBOD over multiple disks
I have a RN102 that has been running X-Raid on a single 2TB disk for a while, now I want to expand the storage. I don't need redundancy, so I switched the volume to Flex-RAID (JBOD), intending to add ...
nas102
Mar 02, 2014Aspirant
If one day, I decided to change to RAID 1, can I switch Flex-RAID (JBOD) to X-RAID (RAID-1)?
All data in that second volume are not required anymore or have been backup, I suppose I just need to do the following step:
1. Copy all data out from second volume
2. Remove second volume physically
3. Configure re-enable X-RAID (JBOD) for the first volume
4. Add a new disk (size > volume 1)
5. Select add parity
6. Done - now X-RAID - RAID 1 on both 2TB drive
please correct if i'm wrong
In the OS 6 manual it mention like this, so I suppose for JBOD with only one volume, it okay to switch to X-RAID mode again.
All data in that second volume are not required anymore or have been backup, I suppose I just need to do the following step:
1. Copy all data out from second volume
2. Remove second volume physically
3. Configure re-enable X-RAID (JBOD) for the first volume
4. Add a new disk (size > volume 1)
5. Select add parity
6. Done - now X-RAID - RAID 1 on both 2TB drive
please correct if i'm wrong
In the OS 6 manual it mention like this, so I suppose for JBOD with only one volume, it okay to switch to X-RAID mode again.
Change from Flex-RAID to X-RAID2
If your system contains only one volume, you can easily switch from Flex-RAID to X-RAID2.
Data on the Flex-RAID volume is preserved when you switch to X-RAID2.
If your system contains multiple volumes, you must first reconfigure your disks into a single
volume.
Note: When you switch to X-RAID2 mode, any extra disks installed in your
system are automatically reformatted and used for storage
expansion.
You cannot change the RAID mode of a RAID 0 or RAID 10 volume.
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