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ReadyNAs 104 and encryption
Hello all,
I have a ReadyNas 104 with 2 4T disks that where configured with X-Raid. I wanted to enable encryption and I read that in order to do that I have to change to flexraid and create a new volume from scratch enabling encryption at creation time.
So I got myself a new 4T disk and I added it to the system, expecting the system to ask for the next step....but I found that the disk was just added on top of the existing converting the volume to Raid-5.
I have about 3.5T worth of data in there and I´m wondering about what can be the next step...
Can I just remove one disk from the raid so it gets in a degraded status, then get the 3rd disk and create a new volume out of it with encryption enabled, then move all the data to it and delete the original volume? After that I´ll expand the one disk with the 2 others?
Option B would be to remove the disk and connect it as USB disk to my computer and backup everything... deleting the existing volume and starting from 0.
How you guys think should I do it?
Thanks in advance for the help!
I have a ReadyNas 104 with 2 4T disks that where configured with X-Raid. I wanted to enable encryption and I read that in order to do that I have to change to flexraid and create a new volume from scratch enabling encryption at creation time.
So I got myself a new 4T disk and I added it to the system, expecting the system to ask for the next step....but I found that the disk was just added on top of the existing converting the volume to Raid-5.
I have about 3.5T worth of data in there and I´m wondering about what can be the next step...
Can I just remove one disk from the raid so it gets in a degraded status, then get the 3rd disk and create a new volume out of it with encryption enabled, then move all the data to it and delete the original volume? After that I´ll expand the one disk with the 2 others?
Option B would be to remove the disk and connect it as USB disk to my computer and backup everything... deleting the existing volume and starting from 0.
How you guys think should I do it?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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- Make sure you have a backup of your data stored in your NAS.
Go to System > Volumes then switch from XRAID to Flex-RAID. Then, select the no. of disk/s you want to use to create a new volume. You will be asked to enable encryption.
Check these links as reference guide:
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... /related/1
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23127
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... /related/1
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... -system%3F - I would not risk the data by having the NAS on a degraded mode. I'd go with backing up the data first then creating a new volume from scratch.
- I don't think your procedure will work anyway. If you remove the drive, then the existing volume will rebuild when you insert the new one. You won't be able to create a jbod volume on it.
So the best option is to copy the data off. You should have a backup strategy anyway.
FWIW, the encryption will slow the NAS down. So you might want to remove all the drives (NAS powered down), and insert a scratch drive - so you can test the performance before you commit to it. - Thanks everybody for the inputs. I was actually reading about the performance drop in this platform and I saw that it can be up to 50% performance drop, which I cannot believe... if that is the case it is unusable.I´m not looking for performance in the NAS, but 50% drop in a platform that is not shinning already is a bit too much.
So I´ll keep on digging and see what I can find about that, then will revisit this topic about changing volumes again.
Cheers guys!
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