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Marcel_X
Aspirant
Jun 06, 2016
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Upgrading NV+ to RN214

I'm about to replace my old NV+ after many years service. The performance leaves a lot to desire and the incidental "Booting, please wait..." lock-up, freaks me out. Unfortunately I can't afford abo...
Adding Disks
Installation & Upgrade
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Jun 07, 2016
    Marcel_X wrote:

    Thanks for the reply!

    Can I start with one drive, put my data on it and upgrade with extra drives over time, without restoring or losing the data?

    Is it possible to add drives like; start with 1 drive and no RAID, expand to 2 drives RAID 1, 3 drives RAID 3-5 and finaly 4 drives RAID 6?

     

    XRAID will handle the migration from jbod->RAID 1-> RAID 5 automatically.  You just insert the new disks.  

     

    You can then change to flexraid to get to RAID-6 on the last drive.  There is no data loss (note all drives will need to be the same size if you want to land on RAID-6).  After the RAID-6 array is built, you can change back to XRAID (or not).

Marcel_X's avatar
Marcel_X
Aspirant
Jun 07, 2016

Thanks for the reply!

Can I start with one drive, put my data on it and upgrade with extra drives over time, without restoring or losing the data?

Is it possible to add drives like; start with 1 drive and no RAID, expand to 2 drives RAID 1, 3 drives RAID 3-5 and finaly 4 drives RAID 6?

 

StephenB's avatar
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jun 07, 2016
Marcel_X wrote:

Thanks for the reply!

Can I start with one drive, put my data on it and upgrade with extra drives over time, without restoring or losing the data?

Is it possible to add drives like; start with 1 drive and no RAID, expand to 2 drives RAID 1, 3 drives RAID 3-5 and finaly 4 drives RAID 6?

 

XRAID will handle the migration from jbod->RAID 1-> RAID 5 automatically.  You just insert the new disks.  

 

You can then change to flexraid to get to RAID-6 on the last drive.  There is no data loss (note all drives will need to be the same size if you want to land on RAID-6).  After the RAID-6 array is built, you can change back to XRAID (or not).

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