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Aspirant

Jun 26, 2017

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New Red Harddrive not avaialbe for backupo

Hello,

I recentyl added a new WDRed 4 TB drive to my 2 bay Ready Nas 102. It shows it to be in good health but it does to seem to be avasilbe for backup. I am using Bvckup2 to move data from my Windows 10 machine to my ready NAS, Any help apprecaited,

Gye

Installation & Upgrade

Sandshark
Jun 29, 2017
One thing to note: With two separate volumes, you will have to manaully juggle the load between the two. Stephen has recommended doing that over a single RAID0 volume because if a drive goes bad, you'll only lose the data on the one, not both. I agree with that recommendation unless manual space juggling is just out of the question. With multiple computers to back up, you shouldn't have an issue doing the juggling.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jun 26, 2017
acugye wrote:

I recentyl added a new WDRed 4 TB drive to my 2 bay Ready Nas 102. It shows it to be in good health but it does to seem to be avasilbe for backup.

What size drive did you have installed before?

Are you using XRAID (the default) or one of the FlexRAID modes?

By default, XRAID will convert your existing volume from jbod to RAID-1 - giving you redundancy but no increase in storage.
- acugye
  Aspirant
  Jun 26, 2017
  Hello Stephen, Thanks again for your support. It was another 4 TB WD Red Drive. I would be using the X-Raid mode. I have just turned off x-raid and tried to run a backup to no avail. What would be the next step? Thanking you again,
  
  Gye
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jun 26, 2017
    acugye wrote:
    
    I would be using the X-Raid mode. I have just turned off x-raid and tried to run a backup to no avail. What would be the next step?
    
    Turning off XRAID now makes no difference, you might as well turn it back on.
    
    Stepping back just a moment - Was your goal to increase the NAS capacity? Or was your goal to add redundancy?
    
    On the backup question, is this backup job unchanged (and if so, did it work before you added the disk)? If so, are you able to access the volume from the PC?