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Swapping discs in a pair of ReadyNAS's's
I have a pair of ReadyNAS: I have a ReadyNAS Duo V1 with two mirrored 1TB drives in X-RAID and a ReadyNAS 102 with two 2TB drives configured as RAID 1. My 2TB 102 is nearly full and one of the drive...
Digsy wrote:
What I would like to do is this: Fit a pair of 4TB drives to the 102, thus freeing up the newer 2TB drives which I wouldlike to put in the Duo V1.
I assume I can hot swap the first 4TB drive into the 102 and let the volume rebuild, then swap in the second 4TB drive to complete the upgrade.
Correct.
Digsy wrote:
What I am less sure about is what happens if I simply then put one of the 2TB drives (with data on it) into the Duo. Is there an order I should do the sawp in (slot 1, then slot two for example) so that the Duo knows which volume to keep. Or do I need to wipe the 2TB disks somehow first? If so, how can I do this, as I gather that a normal IWndows PC cannot read them once they are formetted for the Duo.
Replace the failing disk first (hot-swapping as you did with the RN102). There is no need to wipe them.
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