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Jul 24, 2017

X-raid syncing a fomated used disk

I want to use a used 2Tb seagate disk to replace one of drives in a ReadyNAS NV+4000. I have only 2 2tb drives in a X-raid configuration but rotating total 4 drives ( 2 of them kept in another place ...

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StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Jul 29, 2017

FredJohn wrote:

but now when I want to use a earlier backup disk with a old backup on it Iam not shure what to do.

aks - my understanding from this is that he absolutely does want to extract data from the old disk. Though perhaps this is a hypothetical.

He is using RAID-1 (only two disks installed), so the procedure I provided above should work.

I agree it is not a good backup strategy - repeated resyncs create needless stress on both drives, and a failure during resync can lose data. Plus I don't think SATA connectors are designed to be repeatedly pulled/reinserted.

Sandshark
Sensei - Experienced User
Jul 29, 2017
I also read this that he just wants to re-use an older drive without regard to the data it contains. Hot adding the drive to an NV+ should work (there is an extra step needed on current OS6 units). But to be doubly safe, you could use a PC and remove the partitions before inserting the drive.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Jul 30, 2017
  Sandshark wrote:
  
  I also read this that he just wants to re-use an older drive without regard to the data it contains. Hot adding the drive to an NV+ should work (there is an extra step needed on current OS6 units). But to be doubly safe, you could use a PC and remove the partitions before inserting the drive.
  
  If he wants to simply re-use the drive (destroying what is on it) then I agree that hot-inserting the drive will do that.