Ready NAS DUO v1 Disk Upgrade

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costasx wrote:

 

1. On X-RAID if I install a second drive there's no turning back, it is used as redundancy drive with the lowest size and they have to be both in. If I take one out it will show error... so the only chance of increasing size is by changing both.

 

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Well, upgrading the original drive to 2 TB, which I think is what you meant.  Ideally upgrading it with a WD red or Seagate Ironwolf.

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costasx wrote:

 

2. If i take them both out and install a new one (or the 2GB in the first slot where the 1GB was) will it reset to default and recognise it as a single drive again with it's full capacity?

 

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If you remove the two drives, and install a blank 2 TB drive instead, then the system will do a factory install.  If would be recognized as a single disk with full capacity.  There will be no data, and everything will set to factory default settings.

There's about a 5 minute window after you turn on the system to switch it to flexraid (you do that with RAIDar 4.3.8).  After that time expires, the NAS sets it up for XRAID.

Your second scenario (power down, remove disk 1, and move disk 2 to slot 1) is very different.  That should boot up with a degraded 1 TB volume, and your data is preserved.  It won't get you anywhere useful, unless you use the boot menu to do a factory default.

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costasx wrote:

 

3. My best choice would be to backup my stuff and change my NAS to flex-raid which would recognise the drives separately so i could have 1TB + 2TB or even 2TB+2TB in the future. Right???

 

That gets you the most storage, but of course no RAID redundancy.  You do want to have two volumes (C and D).  If you go this route, I recommend doing the factory reset and switch to flexraid with only the 2 TB drive in place, and then add the second volume later.  That tends to minimize the risk of getting the wrong RAID mode accidentally.

FWIW, my own duo is set up that way (C and D volumes of 2 TB each).