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Removing a disk from XRAID
I am currently using 4 6TB drives in an X-RAID configuration. I would like to upgrade to 3 new drives using 12TB drives in X-RAID. In other words fewer larger disks. I know that I can selectively reboot the RN316 with each 6TB drive removed to fail the drive then rebuild with 12TB installed. After rebuild, wait for the rebuild to complete. The challange, how do tell X-RAID to rebuild without using the fourth drive as there is plenty of space on drives 1, 2 and 3? Thanks in advance.
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Thanks StevenB. Your fast response is greatly appreceated. That said, this seems like a somewhat straigforward maintenance opportunity for ReadyNAS systems to keep them current. Sometimes, adminstrators like to vacate old disk(s) just because they have a bunch of hours on them. :-) Is it not not an administrator's role to be parinoid about failures? Retorical question... Thank you again sir!
Weaverita wrote:
That said, this seems like a somewhat straigforward maintenance opportunity for ReadyNAS systems to keep them current.
Shrinking a volume is tricky, so it's not that surprising that Netgear hasn't chosen to automate it.
Here's a post from Sandshark going over the steps: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/Reducing-RAID-size-removing-drives-WITHOUT-DATA-LOSS-is-possible/td-p/1736125
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