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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...
To be clear, the advice above is to quick-format the second drive on a PC (as NTFS), destroying its contents. Then copy everything over the network from the ultra. When the drive is re-installed in the NAS it would be reformatted again.
You can back up the ultra to a USB drive. NTFS will work, and if you have a PC is probably the best format to use (since you can then directly read it on your PC). You can also back it up to a drive (internal or external) on your PC over the network. Frontview backup can be used for this, another option is to use a Windows copy utility like robocopy. If you have a gigabit network, you will find that backing up over the network is faster than USB. However, USB is faster if you are using 100 mbit ethernet or WiFi.
It is possible to read the contents of the ultra-2 internal drives on your PC w/o reformatting them. You could try http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/ for that, or the paid R-Studio app on the same site.
You can back up the ultra to a USB drive. NTFS will work, and if you have a PC is probably the best format to use (since you can then directly read it on your PC). You can also back it up to a drive (internal or external) on your PC over the network. Frontview backup can be used for this, another option is to use a Windows copy utility like robocopy. If you have a gigabit network, you will find that backing up over the network is faster than USB. However, USB is faster if you are using 100 mbit ethernet or WiFi.
It is possible to read the contents of the ultra-2 internal drives on your PC w/o reformatting them. You could try http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/ for that, or the paid R-Studio app on the same site.
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