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ReadyNas516 RAID
Hi I had a question, i have 3 drive in my ReadyNAS
2TB, 4TB and 4TB. They are currently setup as RAID 5. I have couple of questions
- If I disconnect the 2TB will my data still exist?
- Can i make the 2TB into just another drive and not use for RAID, I was to use the 4TB just for RAID, is this possible?
Please advice
Thank You
Aaseef Shaikh
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aaseef021 wrote:
- If I disconnect the 2TB will my data still exist?
Yes, but the array will be degraded (no longer redundant).
aaseef021 wrote:- Can i make the 2TB into just another drive and not use for RAID, I was to use the 4TB just for RAID, is this possible?
Not simply. You'd need to switch to flexraid, destroy the current volume, and create two new ones (one for the 2 TB drive, the other for the 2x4TB array). Then recreate your shares, and restore the data from backup.
aaseef021 wrote:
Hi I had a question, i have 3 drive in my ReadyNAS
2TB, 4TB and 4TB. They are currently setup as RAID 5.
Did you really mean RAID-5 (around 3.6 TiB data volume)? OR did you mean XRAID (around 5.4 TiB data volume).
All my drives are setup as XRAIDS currently
Did you really mean RAID-5 (around 3.6 TiB data volume)
I have about 3.6 data left but interesting that X-RAID is check and green the volume setting on the page
aaseef021 wrote:
I have about 3.6 data left but interesting that X-RAID is check and green the volume setting on the page
Then you are using XRAID for sure. The volume page doesn't actually give you the total volume size, but if you look on the shares page it will give you the total there. So maybe check the shares page and confirm that you have the 5.4 TiB volume.
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