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Ultra 2 - RAID 0 volume not expanding
Hi all,
Apologies in advance if this is covered elsewhere, but I did not find it.
I have an Ultra 2 with Frontview 4.2.26 (I think that's correct, it's not in front of me now, but it is the latest).
I am using drives off of the HD compatibility list.
I have been using (1) 3TB drive in a Raid 0 config. It is now time to add another disk and I purchased an 4TB drive listed on the HCL (Western Digital Red, like the first one).
I am ok with the Raid 0 config because all the contents of the drive are automatically backed up to a cloud service and that is working well.
What I wanted to do (or really, hoped would happen), is that the addition of the new disk would appear logically and just more disk space for my existing volumes to expand to. (I have 3 shares: audio, pictures, video).
However, I am not given that option in Frontview.
I appreciate any advice as my reading of the docs seems to indicate this should be possible.
Best,
Stu
Hi ssands,
Welcome to the community!
If the RAID volume is set to 0 and you started with just single (1) drive and planning to add a new one, there's no other way but to back up the data and reset the system with both drives installed.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
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Hi ssands,
Welcome to the community!
If the RAID volume is set to 0 and you started with just single (1) drive and planning to add a new one, there's no other way but to back up the data and reset the system with both drives installed.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Thanks for the response.
Probably too much of a hassle to backup somewhere (I use the cloud backup for emergencies). So, I guess I'll just go with two distinct volumes.
Was this somewhere in the manuals and I missed it, or it is just a limitation learned by hard knocks?
Thanks again.
Stu
Page 38 of the user manual ( http://documentation.netgear.com/ultra/enu/202-10654-01/usermanual_1.pdf ) implies that you can add a disk to an existing RAID-0 volume.
Though I don't recommend doing that, because the resulting RAID-0 volume is quite fragile. If either disk fails, you lose everything.
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