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RN104 added 6TB to a 4TB and its now raid1 how to make new volume with the 6TB drive
I was using an RN104 with a single 4tb drive till it run out of space. Now i bought a 6tb drive and forgot (or rather i didnt know) to switch to flexraid before inserting the new drive. As a result I...
You had a single disk JBOD, now it's a RAID1 on two drives. You can use tricks to make a new JBOD volume on the new drive, but you can't revert your RAID1 to a JBOD, at least from the GUI (decreasing the number of RAID devices in the volume). Search this forum, this has been discussed before.
Ful backup + recreating the volumes is the way to go (using the GUI anyway).
Wait why? Its raid1 theoretically when i take one drive i should be able to read it in any computer. So why cant i take the 6tb and make it a separate volume?
You had a single disk JBOD, now it's a RAID1 on two drives. You can use tricks to make a new JBOD volume on the new drive, but you can't revert your RAID1 to a JBOD, at least from the GUI (decreasing the number of RAID devices in the volume). Search this forum, this has been discussed before.
Ful backup + recreating the volumes is the way to go (using the GUI anyway).
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