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I am using Nas RN212 and am using a 2TB hard drive. I want to buy another 14TB hard drive to install on the other bay, is that possible and can the total capacity be 16TB? Does the RN212 support 16TB capacity? Please answer.
TVDH wrote:
I am using Nas RN212 and am using a 2TB hard drive. I want to buy another 14TB hard drive to install on the other bay, is that possible and can the total capacity be 16TB?
The easiest way to do this is to first switch from X-RAID to FlexRAID. Then hot-insert the 14 TB drive and set it up as a second JBOD volume. You can then create shares on it (moving some shares from the 2 TB disk if that is full). You'd have 16 TB total capacity, but there would be two volumes. When you access the NAS from file explorer (or finder), you'd just see the shares (not the volumes they are on).
Another path is to spend a little more and just get a 16 TB drive. Then back up the NAS, power it down,and replace the 2 TB drive with the 16 TB one. Power it up, set up the NAS from scratch, and restore your files from backup. Later on you could add a second 16 TB drive and get RAID protection.
I suggest downloading both the hardware and software manuals before you begin.
- https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/READYNAS_OS_6_SM_EN.pdf
- https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/READYNAS_OS_6_SM_EN.pdf
Information on volumes (including FlexRAID) is in chapter 2 of the software manual.
FWIW, you should put a backup plan in place for your NAS (or modify it to handle the extra storage).
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TVDH wrote:
I am using Nas RN212 and am using a 2TB hard drive. I want to buy another 14TB hard drive to install on the other bay, is that possible and can the total capacity be 16TB?
The easiest way to do this is to first switch from X-RAID to FlexRAID. Then hot-insert the 14 TB drive and set it up as a second JBOD volume. You can then create shares on it (moving some shares from the 2 TB disk if that is full). You'd have 16 TB total capacity, but there would be two volumes. When you access the NAS from file explorer (or finder), you'd just see the shares (not the volumes they are on).
Another path is to spend a little more and just get a 16 TB drive. Then back up the NAS, power it down,and replace the 2 TB drive with the 16 TB one. Power it up, set up the NAS from scratch, and restore your files from backup. Later on you could add a second 16 TB drive and get RAID protection.
I suggest downloading both the hardware and software manuals before you begin.
- https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/READYNAS_OS_6_SM_EN.pdf
- https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/READYNAS_OS_6_SM_EN.pdf
Information on volumes (including FlexRAID) is in chapter 2 of the software manual.
FWIW, you should put a backup plan in place for your NAS (or modify it to handle the extra storage).
Be sure to switch off XRAID before you put in the second drive. If you don't, the volume will expand but just use 2TB of the new drive, with the rest unavailable, and you'll have a RAID1 volume where you can't go back to just using one drive.
While you can expand the volume to the size of both drives with XRAID off, StephenB is suggesting you not do that because the loss of just one of the drives loses all the files in that configuration.
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