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glooz1
May 12, 2025Aspirant
readyNAS 104 doesn't start properly
Hello community, I'm french so i'm sorry for my english level. Topic: Suddenly my NAS didn't start properly. I pushed on start button and the NAS started but stopped after 2 seconds. I retr...
StephenB
May 25, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Sandshark wrote:I see in your Seatools screen shots that you have both 3TB and 4TB drives. If there is more than one 4TB, then they will have one more RAID than the 3TB.
glooz1 - this is quite possible. If you have mixed size drives, the 4 TB drives will have 4 partitions, and there will be four RAID groups on them
- OS
- Swap
- 3 TB data RAID group
- 1 TB data RAID group
The 3 TB drives would not have the fourth data RAID group.
Of course this does depend on what the RS software is telling you. Sandshark is thinking that it is NOT telling you how many disks are in the RAID group you selected. Instead he is thinking that it IS telling you how many RAID groups are on the disk you selected.
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