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Newb install/expand on a RN102
Greetings ReadyNASers,
I got sick of the dreadful performance of my too-cheap-to-believe no-brand NAS, so got a RN102 to fit the same pair of 2TB Seagate Barracuda discs in.
Being paranoid about losing data, I backed up to an external drive, but was also reluctant to wipe both discs clean for a fresh install. Figuring that, worst case, I could rebuild my old RAID1 array from a single surviving disc if everything went pear shaped, I installed a single disc in my RN102 and followed the usual process to factory reset and start clean.
All went well, and I filled the single disc up off my external backup drive overnight. Confirmed that it was all present and intact this morning. Good.
This morning, I followed the general spirit of a recipe I found somewhere on this forum for installing a second disc. I pulled disc 1, installed disc 2, and did a factory reset to format it. Then I pulled disc 2 and installed disc 1, booted (to having a functioning single-disc NAS with all my data), then hot-installed disc 2.
Supposedly, the system should recognise that I'm adding a disc to a single disc X-RAID array, and automatically incorporate it in to the array so I have a proper redundant 2-disc X-RAID array.
Here's what my volumes page looks like now:
(I'm not allowed to make that pic a link to the full-res screenshot - probably due to my n00b status - but it's at http://www.timpaton.net/gallery/d/2968-1/Screenshot+from+2013-07-27+17_06_27.png - if that works)
If I'm not mistaken, the "Data" volume is unchanged since I put the second disc in. Green dot next to the pie chart (and on the picture of the discs), and a chunk of data on it.
The other volumes weren't there before - but they're all empty, and they all have a red dot. Most tellingly, the second disc in the picture of the discs (ie the front of the NAS unit) doesn't have a green light on it. So, by my reckoning, it's not really doing anything.
X-RAID is definitely turned on, so I would expect it should have automagically migrated across to a single "data" volume RAIDed across the two drives.
Both physical disc LEDs on the RN102 unit are lit.
I used the default set of shares (Documents, Pictures, Videos etc.), and they're all still there on the "data" volume. The other volumes have no shares on them.
It's been like this for about 10 hours now, which is longer than it took to copy that ~300GB of data there over USB2... so I'm pretty sure it should have been able to mirror the data to the second drive and incorporate it into the RAID array by now if it was ever going to. I've rebooted the RN102 a few times (with both discs in there) - soon-ish after installing the second drive (when nothing seemed to be happening), and again this evening after ample time for it to do it's thing... if it was going to do a thing.
I've probably made an obvious n00b mistake. Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
The unit is a big improvement over that other piece of junk I had been using... but it will be even better when I can get some redundancy happening.
Thanks,
Tim
I got sick of the dreadful performance of my too-cheap-to-believe no-brand NAS, so got a RN102 to fit the same pair of 2TB Seagate Barracuda discs in.
Being paranoid about losing data, I backed up to an external drive, but was also reluctant to wipe both discs clean for a fresh install. Figuring that, worst case, I could rebuild my old RAID1 array from a single surviving disc if everything went pear shaped, I installed a single disc in my RN102 and followed the usual process to factory reset and start clean.
All went well, and I filled the single disc up off my external backup drive overnight. Confirmed that it was all present and intact this morning. Good.
This morning, I followed the general spirit of a recipe I found somewhere on this forum for installing a second disc. I pulled disc 1, installed disc 2, and did a factory reset to format it. Then I pulled disc 2 and installed disc 1, booted (to having a functioning single-disc NAS with all my data), then hot-installed disc 2.
Supposedly, the system should recognise that I'm adding a disc to a single disc X-RAID array, and automatically incorporate it in to the array so I have a proper redundant 2-disc X-RAID array.
Here's what my volumes page looks like now:
(I'm not allowed to make that pic a link to the full-res screenshot - probably due to my n00b status - but it's at http://www.timpaton.net/gallery/d/2968-1/Screenshot+from+2013-07-27+17_06_27.png - if that works)
If I'm not mistaken, the "Data" volume is unchanged since I put the second disc in. Green dot next to the pie chart (and on the picture of the discs), and a chunk of data on it.
The other volumes weren't there before - but they're all empty, and they all have a red dot. Most tellingly, the second disc in the picture of the discs (ie the front of the NAS unit) doesn't have a green light on it. So, by my reckoning, it's not really doing anything.
X-RAID is definitely turned on, so I would expect it should have automagically migrated across to a single "data" volume RAIDed across the two drives.
Both physical disc LEDs on the RN102 unit are lit.
I used the default set of shares (Documents, Pictures, Videos etc.), and they're all still there on the "data" volume. The other volumes have no shares on them.
It's been like this for about 10 hours now, which is longer than it took to copy that ~300GB of data there over USB2... so I'm pretty sure it should have been able to mirror the data to the second drive and incorporate it into the RAID array by now if it was ever going to. I've rebooted the RN102 a few times (with both discs in there) - soon-ish after installing the second drive (when nothing seemed to be happening), and again this evening after ample time for it to do it's thing... if it was going to do a thing.
I've probably made an obvious n00b mistake. Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
The unit is a big improvement over that other piece of junk I had been using... but it will be even better when I can get some redundancy happening.
Thanks,
Tim
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- I think probably for vertical expansion you would need a 4TB disk (not sure) as you had already added one of those rather than a 2TB disk.
- I submitted a ticket to Netgear tech support got fast reply.
The origin for my issue was that the smaller disks were not on the HCL. I could get the initial setup up and going, but that is most likely the cause for the vertical storage expansion to fail. With supported disks it should have worked out.
I will return my 2TB's to use in the old Duo, and only go forward with the newer (and supported) 4TB Seagate disks in the RN104.
With all due respect to Netgear support, I think this is the correct explanation.mdgm wrote: I think probably for vertical expansion you would need a 4TB disk (not sure) as you had already added one of those rather than a 2TB disk.
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