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gpaolo
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Dec 25, 2016
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RN314 - Cannot create volume on two new disks

Hi all, I am trying to install two disks on my RN314 NAS and for some reason I cannot create a new volume. The two disks are coming from an old ReadyNAS Duo v2. There are already two disks on the R...
  • gpaolo's avatar
    gpaolo
    Dec 26, 2016

    Hi Jenn,

    well, it is difficult to define it as a "solution", since it did not solve anything. It is more an partial explanation of what happened.

    Apparently the reason why the NAS did not allowed me to create a new volume on the two new disks is because it automatically set the first volume as RAID 5. I don't know why, I don't know how, but when I plugged the drives coming from the old NAS it changed the configuration of the first two.

    The result is that I have a single volume which includes the space available from both drives.

    I left it configured in that way, for my needs it is fine also like this.

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