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Ghost Drive?

Dastar5626
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Ghost Drive?

Hello

Thank you in Advance for any help

 

I was given a ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] and it contains 2 1TB hard drives is there a way to use both drives? It currently shows only 1TB of space.

 

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Thank You In advace

Model: ReadyNAS-NV+|ReadyNAS NV+
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StephenB
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Re: Ghost Drive?

It's running RAID-1 which is mirrored (providing redundancy).  The simplest option is to add a third 1 TB drive, which will increase the space to 2 TB.  You'd be able to increase storage later on by adding a fourth drive.

 

 

You can also do a factory reset and switch to flexraid.  The software manual tells you how to do that:  http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RND2110/RAIDiator4-1_SW_en_06Dec11.pdf

 

Note you will need RAIDar 4.3.8 for this (6.4 won't work).  https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar  Also, I strongly recommend two volumes, instead of creating a single 2 TB RAID-0 volume.  Single RAID-0 volumes are very fragile - if either disk fails, then all data (on both) is lost.

 

 

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StephenB
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Re: Ghost Drive?

It's running RAID-1 which is mirrored (providing redundancy).  The simplest option is to add a third 1 TB drive, which will increase the space to 2 TB.  You'd be able to increase storage later on by adding a fourth drive.

 

 

You can also do a factory reset and switch to flexraid.  The software manual tells you how to do that:  http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RND2110/RAIDiator4-1_SW_en_06Dec11.pdf

 

Note you will need RAIDar 4.3.8 for this (6.4 won't work).  https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar  Also, I strongly recommend two volumes, instead of creating a single 2 TB RAID-0 volume.  Single RAID-0 volumes are very fragile - if either disk fails, then all data (on both) is lost.

 

 

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Dastar5626
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Re: Ghost Drive?

Hello

 

Thank you for the quick resonce being I have nothing on the drive I will atempt the reset and use flex-raid.

So Power down Hold Reset for 30ish second and let go sounds simple.

 

Thank you

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StephenB
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Re: Ghost Drive?


@Dastar5626 wrote:

 

So Power down Hold Reset for 30ish second and let go sounds simple.

 


That starts the ~10 minute window - during that window you need to select flexraid using RAIDar 4.3.8 (installed on a PC).

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