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RN104 New Volume
Could not see this particular problem, forgive me if I have missed it and started another thread for nothing. I have a new RN104, I started it for the first time with a new 4TB disk and followed the ...
- With RAID-1 the two disks are mirrored, so adding the second drive does not add capacity - it adds redundancy. If you hot-insert a third 4 TB drive the space will increase to 7.2 TiB, and the NAS will switch to RAID-5. You still have redundancy which protects against a single drive failure.
If you wanted jbod (no RAID) then you should start over with another factory reset (with only one drive installed), switch to FLEXRAID/JBOD, and hot-insert the second drive.
Adding a new disk to the RN104 is easy, I am puzzled by your comment on "not simple to add more disks".
Thanks StephenB for the revert - I see your awesome work / knowledge all over the forums and THANK YOU for getting back to me -
Yes I have all the Hard Drives - the data has not been lost as it was the RN104 Unit which had developed power issues. Thankfully I could get a replacement unit soon enough.
(a) - What is a scratch disk ? I do not remember the exact firmware, however I see 6.1.7 from the recently visited tabs - not sure if that is valid. I have other info (i.e. configuration, IP etc.) still on my PC - would this help ?
Yes I have all the Hard Drives - the data has not been lost as it was the RN104 Unit which had developed power issues. Thankfully I could get a replacement unit soon enough.
(a) - What is a scratch disk ? I do not remember the exact firmware, however I see 6.1.7 from the recently visited tabs - not sure if that is valid. I have other info (i.e. configuration, IP etc.) still on my PC - would this help ?
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