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reverting from flexraid to two independent disks.
I have a Readynas duo V1 which has served me well over the years with 2x2TB drives in flexraid. I had a drive failure, so am now down to one drive. I tried to put in a second drive, but the second d...
Hello GuyCarnegie,
What you are trying to attain is a non-RAID architecture called JBOD where there is no parity and no redundancy.
I want to ask first, what is the current RAID level?
The ReadyNAS Duo v1 (Sparc-based) is an old and EOL system and does not have this option. You can only use XRAID (RAID1) and FlexRAID (RAID0) with this NAS. If you are currently on FlexRAID and you remove one of the disks, there may will be data loss. Remember, RAID0 does not have parity, the data is evenly distributed across the 2 disks, it has no fault tolerance. XRAID on the other hand, will still keep you data intact if one of the disks gets faulty, but you need to insert the same size as a replacement.
If you can still access the files anyhow, with or without 2 disks or with just one disk, have a full backup.
If you want to have more volume capacity, use FlexRAID (RAID0) with 2x2TB, this will give around 3TB volume capacity. Remember that Sparc-based ReadyNAS do not support more than 2TB disks, so the maximum size of disk that you can use with it is just 2TB.
I hope this somehow helps.
Regards,
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