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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 th...
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
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