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ReadyNAS NV+ V2 Hard drive set up
Hi
Bit of a newbie question, Sorry.
I ReadyNAS NV+ V2, Got 2x2tb 2x4tb WD NAS red Drives.
Want 2x2tb mirrored for photo, music and home videos, for secure back up. So mirror 1
Then 2x4tb as stand alone drives not raid, for 1x4tb for tv shows and 1x4tb for films. Dont want raid on them as they can be downloaded again.
How do I configure or set this up ? before you ask, yes Ive got nearly 3tb of films and over 3tb of tv shows. hence why the drives are on thier own.
I have already factory reset the unit and put in the 2 x 2tb and put them as xraid2 which gave me 1.8tb space but when I put in the 4tb it added it to the raid and total was 3.8tb availble ??
Any help and advice, many thanks
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You needed to select flexraid when you did the factory reset, and then create 1 RAID-1 2 TB volume (for the two 2 TB drives), and two 4 TB JBOD volumes (one for each 4 TB drive)
The manual is probably the best place to start: http://www.readynas.com/download/documentation/UM/RAIDiator5-3_Home_SW_en_Nov711.pdf
You'll need to do the reset again, I suggest doing that with only the 2x2TB drives installed.
Thanks StephenB, thats exactly want I needed. Will set it off again.
Hi,
ok ok after a few attempts, still can't mix raid 1 on 2 x2tb with JBOD on 2x4tb. The nas makes both sets raid 1, so 2x2tb is c: raid 1 and 2x4tb is d: raid 1.
tried to put all as JBOD, but it did exactly the same thing, so did a format, good thing I was on nights, it took 2 night shifts and sleeps during the day.
i can get both 2TB to raid but can't get 4TBs to stand alone.
cant see in the dashboard where to format 1x4TB after creating 2x2tb raid 1.
any idea ?
Thanks
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