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thatsapaddlin wrote:

 

It is configured to raid 1. How do i make it so it acts just like a 14tb drive rather than dulpicate now?

Unfortunately there is no easy way to undo your mistake - which was not

1. switching to FlexRAID before adding the disk.
2. creating either a second RAID group or a second volume on the 8 TB drive.

While it is possible to end up with a single 14 TB volume, I recommend against doing that.  Setting up two volumes (one 6 TB and one 8 TB) is safer.  If you go with a single volume that spans both disks, then you lose all your data when either disk fails.  With two volumes, you only lose the data on the failed disk.  The only real cost is that you have to manage the free space so that you have enough on both volumes.  Occasionally that means moving a share from one to the other.

You will first need to back up your data to recover. 

Then there are two approaches.  The first is to:

1. Switch to flexraid
2. destroy the current volume (which will destroy the data)
3. create the new volume(s), and put some shares on each.
4. restore the data from backup.

The second replaces step 2 with

1. enable ssh access for the NAS
2. use linux commands to undo the RAID-1
3. unformat the new disk

If you aren't familiar with linux, I don't recommend the second approach.