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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
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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