104 Second disk from redundency to capacity

You should have converted to flexraid before you added the drive.

You can try to convert to flexraid after the resync - not sure if it will let you or not (that depends on whether the new disk is viewed by the software as "expanding").

However, at that point you don't have an easy way to get back to jbod. You could remove the new drive, unformat it on a PC, and try reinstalling it in slot 3. Then you should be able to create a new volume. But the existing volume will be identified as "Degraded", and slot 2 will need to kept empty.

You might try support, and see if there is something they can do.

If not, you may be better off by (a) doing a factory reset, and rebuilding from scratch or (b) buy another drive, and take the redundancy. If you do get another drive, I suggest WDC Red instead of the green. The warranty is longer, and the drives are just as "green".

Thanks, I'll see what happens after the sync then. I'm not sure I have Flexraid on here, there was not option for it.

Choccy...

There definitely is an option for it on the RN104 - the control is on the "volumes" page.

The software manual describes it, starting on page 19. http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/ ... ct2013.pdf

Does this mean I need to take all the data off and do a full system reset.

Choccy...

The first post answers that. You should copy all the data to a backup first no matter what you do.

Then you could try converting the volume to flexraid. If the system lets you, then you could then remove the second drive, unformat it, and then reinsert it in slot 3. At that point you could create a new volume on that drive and get more space.

The existing volume would be shown as "degraded" forever, and you wouldn't ever be able to use slot 2.

So personally I wouldn't do this. I'd probably just buy a third drive, and keep the raid protection. Even if you aren't worried about losing the data, it is still an inconvenience. And you might find it harder to replace than you think.

Or I'd copy the data to backup (perhaps using the new drive in an enclosure temporarily), reset the NAS, convert to flexraid right away, and restore the data from the backup. Then add the second drive as a second volume (jbod).