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Replacing Disc 1
I have a ReadyNAS 104 with one 3TB drive (up to now). It's configured as X-RAID and I wish to remove Disc 1 and replace with with another identical drive (I want to return Disc 1). I inserted the n...
You can remove disk 1 and leave disk 2 as is. It's reasonable to reboot, but it isn't strictly necessary.
The volume will be shown as degraded until you put in a replacement drive. The system will still work, but you are losing raid redundancy when you go back to one disk.
When you do add drives, hot-insert them (NAS running). There is no need to format them first.
The volume will be shown as degraded until you put in a replacement drive. The system will still work, but you are losing raid redundancy when you go back to one disk.
When you do add drives, hot-insert them (NAS running). There is no need to format them first.
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