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markrobbo78
Jan 13, 2016Follower
Please remove inactive volumes in order to use the disk. RN104 #26317164
Hi all,
I have a RN104 which up until tonight I had been running without issue with 2x4Tb drives installed (Seagate NAS 4TB ST4000VN000), running a RAID5 configuration. As these drives were sta...
cpu8088
Jan 13, 2016Virtuoso
how u can run raid 5 with 2 hard drives?
if u are using x-raid keep your original disks in respective bay 1 and 2 then hot insert new drives to bay 3 and 4. if those new drives have been formatted by say pc or mac then you need to destroy those volumes and then select all 4 drives and then enable expansion
JennC
Jan 13, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello markrobbo78,
Welcome to the community!
If you have no full backup, do not insert the new disks yet. Since you are willing to pay for support, let them handle this for you.
Regards,
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