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Readynas 104 - rebuilding completely new drives?
Hello. I have owned a Readynas 104 for a while, using two 4tb drives. I never got to use it so it's been off for about 6 months. Today I got two more 4tb hard drives because I want RAID 5 using fle...
RAID requires striping information to be written onto all the drives, so it needs to be built even if there is no data at the file system level.
As far as flex raid/xraid2 goes, it really doesn't matter much in your case - either way you get RAID-5. If you don't end up with flexraid, with OS6 you can switch to it w/o rebuilding again.
Hopefully you upgraded the firmware before you did the factory default.
BTW, why did you delete the existing drives? That wasn't necessary.
As far as flex raid/xraid2 goes, it really doesn't matter much in your case - either way you get RAID-5. If you don't end up with flexraid, with OS6 you can switch to it w/o rebuilding again.
Hopefully you upgraded the firmware before you did the factory default.
BTW, why did you delete the existing drives? That wasn't necessary.
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