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Putting 2x4TB in with 2x4TB on RAID 1
Hi there. I have a ReadyNAS104 with 2 x 4TB disks in RAID 1 currently. I've purchased 2 more 4TB disks (same 7200rpm) and would like to know if I need to put 1 new disk in at a time or if I can j...
Zippyduda wrote:
I have a ReadyNAS104 with 2 x 4TB disks in RAID 1 currently. I've purchased 2 more 4TB disks (same 7200rpm) and would like to know if I need to put 1 new disk in at a time or if I can just place both the new disks in, and should I be doing this whilst it is off or on?
Additionally can I just stick to RAID 1 or would I be better off putting the disks into RAID 10 along with the new disks, and if so how do I go about doing that if possible?You could of course just use XRAID. That would give you RAID-5, with a 12 TB (~10.9 TiB) volume with single redundancy. You'd just add the first new disk (hot inserting it), wait for the resync to complete, and then add the second new disk. Personally that's what I'd go with. Best practice is to back up your data before you begin, as if you have a disk failure during expansion you can lose your data.
If for some reason you want two RAID-1 volumes instead, then you first switch to flexraid. Go to the volume tab in the web ui. If you see a green stripe on the XRAID control then you are using XRAID. Click on the control, and it should switch to flexraid. Then hot-insert the two disks, select them in the center graphic, and create a second RAID-1 volume.
You can't get directly to RAID-10 unless you do a factory default - which would require you to set up the NAS again, and restore all your data from backup. I wouldn't go with RAID-10 myself - there isn't much performance benefit with an RN104, so I don't really see the point of it.
Thanks :) I will try via SSH as I have access as can't get them from the Web UI for obvious reasons haha. Will send them the logs, is there a set location or list of files for all the logs that are normally gathered from the web zip DL?
Zippyduda wrote:
Thanks :) I will try via SSH as I have access as can't get them from the Web UI for obvious reasons haha. Will send them the logs, is there a set location or list of files for all the logs that are normally gathered from the web zip DL?
They ( JohnCM_S , Marc_V ) always want the full log zip file. Just upload it to dropbox, google drive, etc.
Don't post a download link publicly - send a PM (private message) using the envelope icon in the upper right of the forum page. Include the download link, and a link to thiis thread.
As I can't access the web UI to download log files, which logs shall I zip up on the NAS via SSH to send them?
I wasn't going to post them publically, I was going to send them via PM :)
Zippyduda wrote:
which logs shall I zip up on the NAS via SSH to send them?
they are built on the fly from journalctl.
You can create the zip from ssh using
# rnutil create_system_log -o filename
Filename can of course include a path, so something like /data/sharename/$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)-system.zip will work.
Thanks, that's worked :) Will send them over
Error: Connection failure: Connection refused sysctl: reading key "net.ipv6.conf.LeafNets.stable_secret" sysctl: reading key "net.ipv6.conf.all.stable_secret" sysctl: reading key "net.ipv6.conf.default.stable_secret" sysctl: reading key "net.ipv6.conf.eth0.stable_secret" sysctl: reading key "net.ipv6.conf.eth1.stable_secret" sysctl: reading key "net.ipv6.conf.lo.stable_secret" system log /data/Documents/Logs/$hostname-20210521_162831-system.zip created successfully
Logs sent to John and Marc
John and the netgear team have now resolved my issue by applying version 6.10.5 Hotfix 1 via Remote Support.
I downloaded RAIDar version 6.5, clicked the NAS image 5-6 times, selected Remote Support, entered my username and password, typed AGREE and provided them with the PIN code. They then connected to my NAS remotely and applied the hotfix.
Thanks for their help in resolving this issue, I wasn't comfortable with downgrading via SSH and can now access my NAS again via the UI :)
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