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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 l...
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
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.
StephenB wrote:Though I don't recommend doing that, because the resulting RAID-0 volume is quite fragile. If either disk fails, you lose everything.
not if u have external backup or another nas as backup.
been using raid 0 many years with backup. at most the volume collapse and u destroy the faulty volume, swap the bad drive with good one and then recreate the volume then restore from backup.
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