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DLX10
May 16, 2018Aspirant
How to combine two disks
Hello.
I added a second disk (4 TB).
How to combine this disk with first one (1 TB)?
3 Replies
- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
It already is combined - BUT xraid provides single redundancy, so the new disk is providing that instead of additional storage. If you want additional storage, the capacity rule is "sum the disks and subtract the largest". Another constraint is that you need to add 4 TB or larger disks to the array.
So you could get a second 4 TB drive. If you replaced the existing 1 TB one, you'd get 4 TB of storage, if you simply add it to one of your empty slots you'll end up with 5 TB.
Another option (if you don't want redundancy) is to change to flexraid, and destroy the current volume (and the data on it). Then you can create two new volumes - one for each disk. Recreate the shares (some on each volume) and restore the data from backup.
Note you can create a single volume that spans both disks, but I don't recommend that. It's quite fragile - if either disk fails, you lose all the data on both. Using two volumes ensures that only the data on the failed drive is lost.
- DLX10Aspirant
Stephen, thank you for answer.
If I created a storage 5 TB (2 disks, single volume), and in future I will add a new disk 4TB, then total capacity of my single volume will be 9 TB?
[sorry for my English]
- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
DLX10 wrote:
If I created a storage 5 TB (2 disks, single volume), and in future I will add a new disk 4TB, then total capacity of my single volume will be 9 TB?
If you use RAID-0 then you could do that. The documentation is here: https://www.netgear.com/images/support/WP_ReadyNAS%20FlexRAID%20Optimization%20Guide_18May17.pdf
I don't recommend doing it, for the reasons I gave above. If you choose to use it anyway, it's particularly important to maintain backups of all the files you care about.
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