ReadyNas Duo Blank Configuratioin

Your NAS has very old firmware on it that doesn't support 2TB disks (see the copyright 2008 on the bottom of the page).

Backup your data, update to the latest firmware (currently 4.1.13), verify the update is successful then do a factory default and put your data back on.

Note you may need to clear your web browser cache, close your web browser then reopen Frontview to get it to display properly after the update.

Hi,

I think that did the trick. It now shows: "X-RAID (Expandable Raid), 2 disks". Is that the one with the bitwise copy? So if one fails I just pop in a new hd and it resyncs?

Can I load stuff on the NAS now or do I need to wait until the resync terminates? What about some of the admin stuff (passwords, shares, etc), wait till it's done? Thanks!

Edit:
One last thing: I've been reading about X-raid and I'm not quite sure how that works. Suppose Disk A is 1 TB and B is 2TB. I think what will happen is that both disks go to 1TB. What happens in a 3 HD NAS? If A = 1, B= 2, C= 3, do they all initialize to 1 TB? Or Does X-Raid do something like A+B = C in terms of redundancy?

Thanks again!

1. If a disk fails you can replace it and the RAID will rebuild. Still you should backup important data primarily stored on the NAS just in case.
2. You can load stuff now, but performance will be reduced till the resync has completed. You could setup passwords and shares too.
3. On newer models with three or more disks X-RAID2 is like RAID-5. With X-RAID2 single redundancy the volume capacity is the capacity of all the disks - the capacity of the largest disk - overheads etc.

Note that your NAS is an old model. So you could move your disks to a NV+ v1 and add more disks to expand your volume, but you could not move your array to a NV+ v2 etc.