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ynohtna
Sep 15, 2016Tutor
RN526X with 6x 4TB WD Red PRO. What should I set up this time, my 3rd readynas.
This was a bit unscheduled since I was thinking to just upgrade my pro pioneer drives! However, the pro pioneer appears to have died and I think it's the raid controller causing things not to boot.....
StephenB
Sep 19, 2016Guru - Experienced User
mdgm wrote:
X-RAID uses RAID-5 by default. So you would have to disable X-RAID, backup your data, destroy the volume, create a RAID-6 volume (best to call this "data" - no quotes) and then re-enable X-RAID.
If you haven't done the install yet, this can be done quite quickly. You don't have to wait for the initial X-RAID volume to be fully built / synced. As soon as you get through the initial setup you can disable XRAID and destroy the volume.
I think if you have 5 disks installed, you can also switch to flexraid and then add the last disk for redundancy (with no data loss).
ynohtna
Sep 19, 2016Tutor
Yea my drives are still enroute so I have the opportunity to decide the best option and set it once right from the beginning!
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