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ReadyNAS Ultra 6: what's the fastest way to upgrade (replace) all disks and enable RAID 6?
Hi,
I just performed the 4.2.1 --> 6.9.4 upgrade on my legacy ultra 6. In my prior configuration, I had 2 redundant disks. With the 6.9.4 upgrade, it defaults to 1 (and is currently resyncing)....
rashoo wrote:
StephenB wrote:
rashoo wrote:
So now i guess i need let it complete the sync and add the 4TB drives one-by-one.
I am confused on why you are doing it this way. It would have been faster to do a fresh install with 6x4TB in place, and then switch to RAID-6.
You'll be doing 6 needless resyncs.
Well I am following what I thought were the correct procedures from many threads I read on here...? Luckily I hadn't started pulling / resyncing drives yet. So should I just pull all the drives and replace? I assume I need to power off, install and reboot to do that?
Thanks in advance...
Since I hadnt actually started pulling drives I went ahead and powered down and pulled / swapped all the drives at once (1TB --> new 4TB). On powering up, the system did a factory reset with 6.9.4.
Once the UI was accessible, I went through the wizard and then went to System -> Volumes and removed the new default RAID 5/X-RAID volume by clicking on the gear wheel in the left light-blue box and selecting "Destroy". Once that was done, I could click on each drive in turn and then select "New Volume" on the right of the UI. This created a new RAID 6/FlexRAID volume. After that, I was able to click on the greyed-out XRAID box on the left to switch from FlexRAID back to X-RAID, but now with RAID 6 instead of RAID 5.
Right now the sync is chundering along. Thanks StephenB for the suggestion.
John
1. The system is currently in the process of syncing with the drives that I intend to replace. Do I need to let that finish?
Well I managed to answer at least this part: I clicked on the "cog" in the light blue status box on the left side under System --> Volumes and selected "Destroy". That allowed me to delete the default and create a new volume with RAID6. Interestingly I didnt have to switch from XRAID to FlexRAID to get RAID6, the dialog box to create a new XRAID volume offered RAID6 as an option. Nope. It was FlexRAID. But I was able to immediately re-select XRAID. Apologies if anyone read this before I corrected my mistake.
So now i guess i need let it complete the sync and add the 4TB drives one-by-one.
rashoo wrote:
So now i guess i need let it complete the sync and add the 4TB drives one-by-one.
I am confused on why you are doing it this way. It would have been faster to do a fresh install with 6x4TB in place, and then switch to RAID-6.
You'll be doing 6 needless resyncs.
StephenB wrote:
rashoo wrote:
So now i guess i need let it complete the sync and add the 4TB drives one-by-one.
I am confused on why you are doing it this way. It would have been faster to do a fresh install with 6x4TB in place, and then switch to RAID-6.
You'll be doing 6 needless resyncs.
Well I am following what I thought were the correct procedures from many threads I read on here...? Luckily I hadn't started pulling / resyncing drives yet. So should I just pull all the drives and replace? I assume I need to power off, install and reboot to do that?
Thanks in advance...
rashoo wrote:
StephenB wrote:
rashoo wrote:
So now i guess i need let it complete the sync and add the 4TB drives one-by-one.
I am confused on why you are doing it this way. It would have been faster to do a fresh install with 6x4TB in place, and then switch to RAID-6.
You'll be doing 6 needless resyncs.
Well I am following what I thought were the correct procedures from many threads I read on here...? Luckily I hadn't started pulling / resyncing drives yet. So should I just pull all the drives and replace? I assume I need to power off, install and reboot to do that?
Thanks in advance...
Since I hadnt actually started pulling drives I went ahead and powered down and pulled / swapped all the drives at once (1TB --> new 4TB). On powering up, the system did a factory reset with 6.9.4.
Once the UI was accessible, I went through the wizard and then went to System -> Volumes and removed the new default RAID 5/X-RAID volume by clicking on the gear wheel in the left light-blue box and selecting "Destroy". Once that was done, I could click on each drive in turn and then select "New Volume" on the right of the UI. This created a new RAID 6/FlexRAID volume. After that, I was able to click on the greyed-out XRAID box on the left to switch from FlexRAID back to X-RAID, but now with RAID 6 instead of RAID 5.
Right now the sync is chundering along. Thanks StephenB for the suggestion.
John
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