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ReadyNAS 214 Storage Expansion
I have a ReadyNAS 214 with 4 4TeraByte hard disks in it, that use X-Raid and Raid 5 on them It is getting full (between 80 and 90 percent used) so, before it hits 100 I wanted to expand it. I'mlooking to see if there is a way to do this by just swapping the drives - since it is working fine, I don't really want to get a new NAS if I don't have to.
Ideas?
Thanks,
Brian
bwgreen wrote:
I have a ReadyNAS 214 with 4 4TeraByte hard disks in it, that use X-Raid and Raid 5 on them It is getting full (between 80 and 90 percent used) so, before it hits 100 I wanted to expand it. I'm looking to see if there is a way to do this by just swapping the drives -
You can get a pair of larger drives. Hotswap one, and wait for the resync to complete. Then hotswap the second. The resync on the 2nd will happen in two phases - during the second phase the NAS will expand. The capacity rule is "sum the disks and subtract the largest". So going with 2x12 TB would give you 8 TB more storage.
WD Red Plus or Seagate Ironwolf are good choices for your NAS.
Netgear does recommend backing up your data first, as the RAID array isn't redundant during expansion.
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bwgreen wrote:
I have a ReadyNAS 214 with 4 4TeraByte hard disks in it, that use X-Raid and Raid 5 on them It is getting full (between 80 and 90 percent used) so, before it hits 100 I wanted to expand it. I'm looking to see if there is a way to do this by just swapping the drives -
You can get a pair of larger drives. Hotswap one, and wait for the resync to complete. Then hotswap the second. The resync on the 2nd will happen in two phases - during the second phase the NAS will expand. The capacity rule is "sum the disks and subtract the largest". So going with 2x12 TB would give you 8 TB more storage.
WD Red Plus or Seagate Ironwolf are good choices for your NAS.
Netgear does recommend backing up your data first, as the RAID array isn't redundant during expansion.
Thanks - this is what I was hoping!
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