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igelzuechter
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Aug 06, 2017
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ready nas 102: Volume data is degraded

Hi folks,   I was using my RN102 (OS 6.7.5) with one 3 TB disk in X-Raid mode for many years. Now I want to migrate it to Flex-Raid. So I changed the volume from X-Raid to Flex Raid, by cliking th...
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volume data is degraded
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Aug 11, 2017
    igelzuechter wrote:

     

    Is there any way to migrate from two HD in X-raid mode to Flex Raid in JBOD to increase the capacity? Ideally without a backup and restore  of my data?

     

    You have to switch to flexraid, destroy the xraid volume, then create two new ones (one for each disk).  I recommend naming one of them data.

     

    There's no way to avoid data loss.  Also, uninstall your apps first, as they are stored on the data volume.

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Marty_M
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 07, 2017

Hello igelzuechter,

 

Upon changing from XRaid to FlexRaid were you ask to select the raid level? Degraded volume means it is up/accessible but it is not redundant. Please refer to the information from this link. 


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Marty_M 
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