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ReadyNSW 6 - Raid0 - increase storage
I have a ReadyNAS 104 running v6.10.3 in Raid0. It's a four bay system with 3 4Tb drives installed. I was wanting to find out how I add another drive. Do I have to wipe everything and start again...
Bolly2007 wrote:
I have a ReadyNAS 104 running v6.10.3 in Raid0.
It's a four bay system with 3 4Tb drives installed. I was wanting to find out how I add another drive. Do I have to wipe everything and start again?
No.
The safest approach is to create a second volume, and move some shares to it.
Though it is possible to expand an existing volume. See page 40 here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/READYNAS_OS_6_SM_EN.pdf
There is also some information here: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_FlexRAID_Optimization_Guide.pdf Note you will need to choose the "concatenated" mode to join the disk to your existing volume.
- Thank you for your quick reply. I will try it out today.
I'm guessing the system will go into resyncing?
How do I know if it's resyncing?
Bolly2007 wrote:
I'm guessing the system will go into resyncing?If you are using RAID0 then there is no resyncing - because there is no RAID redundancy.
With 3x4TB, you'd have 12 TB of space now (shown as 10.9 TiB on the NAS web ui). Is that what you are seeing?
- Thanks Stephen
I had made a copy of everything and was about to redo the whole thing as couldn't get the NAS to add the new drive. Which took some time.
Anyway I tried again from volumes page in settings as created a Group using the new drive. That did it! Without wiping the system.
The ReadyNAS documentation could be a little clearer but v happy to have it sorted.
Again thanks for your help
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