Migrating from 2 × 1TB to 1 × 2TB

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Poldek wrote:

Yes, I know that putting two 2TB disks would have given me 2TB of disk space with redundancy.

At this stage I don't care for redundancy. Neither I want to buy second 2TB disk.

What I want is to have:

1. all my configuration settings preserved,

2. 2TB disk space

3. ONE disk of 2TB capacity inside my ReadyNAS Duo (SPARC).

The question is: is there a way to get this without manually recreating all configs?

 

What will happen in that given scenario:

1. ReadyNAS is on with two disks of 1TB synchronized and redundant,

2. I hot remove disk no2,

3. I put new 2TB disk into bay 2,

4. ReadyNAS initiates and synchronizes new drive,

5. When sync is done I hot remove disk 1,

6. I reboot ReadyNAS.

Will it expand to 2TB then?

If it will not expand automatically, will it expand with manually initiated command? If so, how to do it manually?

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I don't think that will work. AFAIK the NAS will not expand unless both drives are replaced with larger ones. X-RAID doesn't support reducing the number of discs or disc capacity.

If you hotswap your current disc 2 and replace it with a 2 TB disc the NAS will resync. When you remove the disc in bay 1 the NAS wil consider the volume as degraded as there is no longer any redundancy.

I doubt that rebooting the device will change this.

If you want to have the NAS running with just one disc you will have to do a full backup and then do a factory reset with the 2 TB in the NAS (And ONLY this disc). This will wipe all data and settings.