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ReadyNAS NVX Drive failure and replacement options
I have an NVX with 4x 2TB Seagate drives, configured as a single volume using X-RAID2. It reports Online, X-RAID2, 4 disks, 37% of 5548 GB used. Earlier today I got " Thu Sep 1 00:01:42 MDT 2016 ...
cathcam wrote:
... http://www.rnasguide.com/2011/06/22/what-to-do-before-expanding-your-readynas-volume/ clearly says that I can't do what I proposed above, ie put a 1TB drive in an XRAID2 volume that is already built with 2TB drives.
That is correct.
cathcam wrote:
So, I guess my primary option is to take a 2TB drive an put it in my primary NVX to bring that back to 4x 2TB drives. Then initialise the backup NVX to use 1x 1TB drive + 3x 2TB drives.
The question is, does that give me enough capacity to rsync my primary over at say 60% capacity?
The primary NAS will have 6 TB capacity, and the backup will have 5 TB (note FrontView will show less, since it displays GiB units (1024*1024*1024 bytes instead of 1000*1000*1000).
Not completely sure if I understand the question, but if the primary is ~60% full, then the backup would be about ~75% full.
Hmm, so I've been reading http://www.rnasguide.com/2011/06/22/what-to-do-before-expanding-your-readynas-volume/
which clearly says that I can't do what I proposed above, ie put a 1TB drive in an XRAID2 volume that is already built with 2TB drives. So, I guess my primary option is to take a 2TB drive an put it in my primary NVX to bring that back to 4x 2TB drives. Then initialise the backup NVX to use 1x 1TB drive + 3x 2TB drives.
The question is, does that give me enough capacity to rsync my primary over at say 60% capacity?
cathcam wrote:
... http://www.rnasguide.com/2011/06/22/what-to-do-before-expanding-your-readynas-volume/ clearly says that I can't do what I proposed above, ie put a 1TB drive in an XRAID2 volume that is already built with 2TB drives.
That is correct.
cathcam wrote:
So, I guess my primary option is to take a 2TB drive an put it in my primary NVX to bring that back to 4x 2TB drives. Then initialise the backup NVX to use 1x 1TB drive + 3x 2TB drives.
The question is, does that give me enough capacity to rsync my primary over at say 60% capacity?
The primary NAS will have 6 TB capacity, and the backup will have 5 TB (note FrontView will show less, since it displays GiB units (1024*1024*1024 bytes instead of 1000*1000*1000).
Not completely sure if I understand the question, but if the primary is ~60% full, then the backup would be about ~75% full.
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