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CharlesR
Apr 25, 2014Guide
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...
StephenB
Apr 26, 2014Guru - Experienced User
I don't know of any way to suppress the lights and messages. Support might be able to to help though. What you actually want is to finesse the system so that it treats the volume as jbod (as it was before).
You could try switching to flexraid. I don't think that will help,but am not sure. That's not a downgrade btw, just a different approach to managing the raid volumes.
You might need to do a factory reset and rebuild the NAS. You'd need to reload your data from a backup to do that.
For future reference, it would have been better in this case to clone the old disk drive, and insert the clone with the NAS powered down.
You could try switching to flexraid. I don't think that will help,but am not sure. That's not a downgrade btw, just a different approach to managing the raid volumes.
You might need to do a factory reset and rebuild the NAS. You'd need to reload your data from a backup to do that.
For future reference, it would have been better in this case to clone the old disk drive, and insert the clone with the NAS powered down.
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