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cguers
Jun 20, 2011Aspirant
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...
sphardy1
Jun 20, 2011Apprentice
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
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