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jglazer63
Tutor
Jan 11, 2020

Raid 1 with a single drive

Is it possible to create a volume with 1 drive, then add another drive later for RAID 1 without reformatting the original drive?  It is 10TB so backing it up would be painful.   Thanks!
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jglazer63
Tutor
Jan 11, 2020

So I can create a JBOD volume with a missing second drive then install the second drive later?

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 11, 2020
jglazer63 wrote:

So I can create a JBOD volume with a missing second drive then install the second drive later?

Yes.  

 

You create the volume as jbod now, and then you can add a second drive to the volume for redundancy later on (which will give you RAID-1).

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