I currently have an RN102 (2-bay) with a 3TB and 4TB drives. The unit is configured with 2 volumes, one for each disk. I am running both in a 'JBOD' configuration as RAID is not required (I have multiple backups of the data).
The 3TB is getting full so I would like to upgrade it. What is the best way to do this? Specifically:
1. Can I remove and replace the 3TB drive without impacting the other (4TB) volume?
2. Can I then place the 3TB drive in a USB hard drive caddy and mount the volume in the RN102 by plugging the caddy into NAS?
I would like to remount the 3TB drive as a USB drive because it will make copyinh the data to the new volume much easier, but if this is impossible I can recreate the data from other sources.
Since both disks are configured separately, the 4TB will not be affected when replacing the other volume.
JBOD configured disk will not be mounted on the USB port of the NAS because it is in BTRFS. The best way is to backup your data from the 3TB drive while mounted on the NAS, replace it with a higher capacity disk or just format the 3TB as a new volume.
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