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NAS - RAID options and reverting levels of raid? - Enquiries - 02-28-2020
Hi,
Hope all is well in your part of the world at the moment - we're in lockdown so the perfect time to sort a few issues out on the NAS.
I have the QNAP 451A, with 2 x 6TB in raid 1, and 2 x 2TB in a separate in raid 1.
6TB is used for media storage - movies TV etc. This is accessed throughout the house by a number of Kodi devices as well as any PC on our home network - very handy in the current situation with a house full of teenagers.
2TB is raid 1 as it has family photos, home movies and documents we want to have a level of protection over, hence raid1. Currently plenty of room on this setup.
From memory, I only put the media on raid 1 as I thought 6TB was huge! Should have thought back to when I used to think my 350 MB HDD was huge!
As it turns out - the 6TB is almost is almost full. I have been looking at your (very helpful) videos on how to upgrade drives etc, and buying two larger drives is certainly an option, although costly.
Finally - my question - I am thinking of reverting the 6TB to 2 x JBODs, essentially giving me 12TB, but no ability for redundancy/protection. Is it possible to achieve this without fully resetting the NAS, and starting from scratch?
Hopefully I'm using the correct terms?
Appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.
Scott
NZ
NAS - RAID options and reverting levels of raid? - ed - 02-15-2021
If your OS is set up on first two 6TB disks then you will need to reset all system. If it is on the sending half which you plan on keeping same, then you can destroy only that RAID and build only that from scratch.Unfortunately, Qnap doesn't give the option to downgrade RAID options.I hope this helps.