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ReadyNAS 214 Reconfiguration
I have a ReadyNAS 214 that only had one drive in it for a long time. I decided to add a second drive but I forgot to change the system to Flex-Raid. So when I added the second drive it began to mir...
RonT46 wrote:
At this point, I merely want to reformat the drives as two JBOD volumes but cannot figure a way to do this. Any assistance would be appreciated.
If you have just one drive in the system now, then switch to flexraid first. Then you can choose JBOD when you install the second disk.
If both drives are in the system (RAID-1), then switch to flexraid. Destroy the volume and then create two new JBOD volumes.
RonT46 wrote:
So I backed up the data and attempted to re-configure the system by restoring to factory settings. This will supposedly delete the data and any configurations. But it resets the system but DOES NOT delete the data and configurations
Actually it does. If that didn't happen then you didn't do a reset. Perhaps you did an OS reinstall instead?
Another possibility is that you did the reset with both drives in place. Then data would be destroyed, but the system would used the default XRAID, so you'd end up with RAID-1.
Thank you for your response. I was able to remove one of the drives from the system and then do a factory reset. Then I was eventually able to create the two JBOD volumes.
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