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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".
Close, but its actually simpler than that. The new RN104 just boots up from the old disks. Nothing is being re-created.
manavjs wrote: And then insert my original disks and they should be able to create the same old volume that I had. I guess this should sum up what you have suggested.
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