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Ypho
Feb 28, 2013Aspirant
Two drives, but I don't want RAID
I have a ReadyNAS Ultra 2 with firmware 4.2.22. When I bought the NAS, I had a 2TB drive in it. Last week, I added another 2TB drive to it, and it automatically set up as X-RAID2. The problem is, I...
mdgm-ntgr
Feb 28, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
Ypho wrote: If a solution needs a factory reset, does that mean all data is erased from my HDs?
Yes you need to do a factory reset and yes it will wipe the hard drives, so all data, settings, everything will be wiped.
You need to do a factory reset, open RAIDar (http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20684/), click setup and choose Flex-RAID and confirm your choice. There is a 10 minute countdown. If you don't choose the RAID mode during this time and confirm your choice the NAS will choose for you (by default the last mode chosen, I think).
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