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Can I remove a disc from a flex-raid volume
Hi All
I had a volume disk die on me a week or so ago so I pulled it out, stuck a new one in and the volume rebuilt - all good.
I took the old disc out and put it in my desktop and ran the WD tools tests on it (quick and full) and the tests said that the drive was 100% ok. No problems were found. THe drive is probably around a year old.
I concoluded that the drive was probably OK and thought I would save it until I needed the extra space, with no obvious better place to store it I put it in my spare drive slot in my readyNas. Now, it is using that extra disc and re-syncing the data onto it.
I now have 4 3TB discs in my readynas - for just less than 3TB of data....
I don't see anyway of removing the disc. is this possible?
Will I get any performance benefits with the extra disc?
I think it's probably not a good idea having an extra, uneeded disc in there as there is more probability of failure, more power usage and more discs being used and worn out...
Thanks for the help.
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What ReadyNAS do you have and what firmware is it running?
Once the volume is built, there is no way to shrink it. You'd have to destroy it and build a new one (restoring data from backups).
If you are using RAID-5 flexraid (or single redundancy flexraid) then you should end up with a 9 TB volume size (~8.2 TiB). If this is not what you are getting, then something isn't right.
I have a ReadyNas 314 with Firmware 6.4.2
Roaders wrote:
I have a ReadyNas 314 with Firmware 6.4.2
Thx.
You'll either need to live with the larger array, or do one of the procedures below:
(a) do a factory reset, and restore the data from backup
(b) destroy volume, remove the disk, create a new volume, and restore the data from backup.
With (b) if the apps are installed to this volume, you'll need to uninstall them first, and then reinstall them after the new volume is created.
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