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upgrade storage readynas 212
Hi Not good with this stuff. I have a 212 with a almost full 6tb drive in bay 2 only and I want to increase my total stroage to 14tb so i purchased and added a 8tb drive. But the storage has not ...
Thanks for comprehensive answer. Sorry I don't follow all this real well.
I'm keen to stick with original plan of mine as most data is a time machine backup from all my macs so all I would lose is a backup. I don't want to have a seperate disk as this would mean creating a new tm backup but rather just have one big one.
Can I just switch to flexiraid and somehow erase only the new disk and the add it to first (btw have no way to back the nas up)?
what steps would I need to take to erase new drive, and then add to older drive to make total of 14tb? Thanks again
thatsapaddlin wrote:
Can I just switch to flexraid and somehow erase only the new disk and the add it to first (btw have no way to back the nas up)?
No. You'd have to switch to flexraid, and then adapt the linux commands that Sandshark gave you to reverse the RAID-1. Then you could add the new disk to the first (expanding storage this time).
Thanks again but im afraid that is too compex for me and also not without risk of bricking from his comments.
So Im still at squre one-
Anyone got any suggestion how I can most simply set my NAS up as a 14tb backup. Im on a mac. I can lose all my data and start again if absolutely necessary?
thatsapaddlin wrote:
I can lose all my data and start again if absolutely necessary?
If the linux commands are too hard for you, then that's what you'll need to do.
You'd switch to FlexRAID, destroy your current volume, and then select the first disk and create a jbod volume.
Then select that volume, and then choose "add group". You'll then want to choose "concatenated" to get a 14 TB volume.
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Thanks how do I destroy is that just an option?
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