NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Reduce number of disks... now that 3TB are available
I have a ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition unit with 3 drives of 1TB each and 2 drives of 2TB each. I added the 2x2TB drives a couple of months ago as I was concerned I was too close to the capacity avail...
cguers wrote:
By the way, backing up, factory resetting and restoring is not going to work for me
Then you have no choice but to leave the drives installed - it is not possible to reduce the number of drives without completely resetting the array and reformatting the installed drives
FYI those drives *are* being used by the array - data is distributed across all drives. Wikipedia has good info on how RAID works and distributes data
NETGEAR Academy
Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!
