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ReadyNAS Duo, Adding 2nd disk as ACTUAL 2nd disk?
Hello dear ReadyNAS users, I have a question I could not find the answer to here in the forums or the documentation. Can I add a second disk to a ReadyNAS Duo as an ACTUAL second disk? As far as...
The system I want to use in this way is a ReadyNAS Duo with one 1TB disk in X-RAID running RAIDiator 4.1.7 [1.00a043]. Only non-standard thing is that I replaced the memory with a module I had lying around, so it's now 512 MB instead of the 256 it came with.
But I guess the answers above pretty well explained what I must do. Backup all data from the current disk, reset the NAS and have it use Felx-RAID and then set up the disks one by one. Thanks for the replies everyone, think I'll just have to go this way and spend a few days copying data back and forth.
How does it take you a week to transfer 1TB of data? Do you copy all the data over the network and is your NAS connected to a 100 Mbit network?
If you have a USB disk to backup/transfer your data to/from, it might be much faster if you connect it directly to the NAS and use a backup-scheme to transfer all the data. That's how I filled the NAS I want to expand now and it took little less than 24 hours to fill almost the entire 1 TB disk. Just "backup" the entire USB share to a folder on the ReadyNAS and move the data to the appropriate folders on the NAS afterwards.
But I guess the answers above pretty well explained what I must do. Backup all data from the current disk, reset the NAS and have it use Felx-RAID and then set up the disks one by one. Thanks for the replies everyone, think I'll just have to go this way and spend a few days copying data back and forth.
soltarian wrote: ... I just finished transferring 1TB of files onto the ReadyNas (on the 2TB drive in slot1) and that took me about 1 week...
How does it take you a week to transfer 1TB of data? Do you copy all the data over the network and is your NAS connected to a 100 Mbit network?
If you have a USB disk to backup/transfer your data to/from, it might be much faster if you connect it directly to the NAS and use a backup-scheme to transfer all the data. That's how I filled the NAS I want to expand now and it took little less than 24 hours to fill almost the entire 1 TB disk. Just "backup" the entire USB share to a folder on the ReadyNAS and move the data to the appropriate folders on the NAS afterwards.
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