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Upgrade with 3TB disk
Hi all I have a ReadyNas Duo v2 with a 1 tb disk. I have purchased a 3 TB disk to expand storage. Data protection is not that important to me, and ideally I would like 4 TB of storage. My nas is...
Well, you will certainly lose it at some point if you don't have do backups. You should invest in that soon (USB drives are pretty inexpensive). Get a UPS for the NAS while you are at it.
Chrisdk wrote: ...Is there a way to keep my data and still use both disks as storage? I do not have the possibility to back up the data on the first disk and would hate to loose it.
But you might have a way to backup your data with your existing disks. Put your new 3 TB disk in a PC temporarily, format it, copy the data from the NAS to the drive. If you have a USB drive enclosure that supports 3 TB,then that is another option.
After you have the data, do a reset just the 1 TB drive in place (choosing flexraid, with RAID-0 or JBOD). Then copy the data back.
The delete the partitions from the 3 TB drive, and hot-insert it onto the NAS. Add a new volume that uses the 2nd drive.
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