ReadyNAS Duo V2
By dbott | November 19, 2011
Just playing around with the ReadyNAS Duo V2. I setup a test WordPress blog to compare performance vs the old sparc-based CPU. Muuuuuch faster!
http://duov2.bott.ca:81/wordpress/
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Back Online
By dbott | November 14, 2011
If you’re reading this, obviously my system is back up & running. One of my disks barfed up a massive amount of RAS errors and I had another that was coughing up a few every couple of weeks, so I started to look at replacing them with larger ones. Of course, pricing on new 2 TB drives has doubled since the flood and the 2 TB Hitachi’s I bought back in May for 109.00 each are now 199.99:
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_210_212&item_id=035599
Rather than drop $400+ on a couple of new drives, I decided that I since I hadn’t upgraded Prosey to 4.2.19 yet (nor done the obligatory factory default to get ext4), it might be a good time to do a little “drive shuflling” and rebuild Prosey with 2 x 500 GB and the 2 x 2 TB drives I was using in my DuoV2 during the beta test.
The DuoV2 will get 2 old 500 GB drives from the Pro, while the 2 other 500 GB drives are being RMA’d to Seagate.
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What To Do When Expansion Doesn’t Start
By dbott | June 4, 2011
The Netgear ReadyNAS network attached storage device is designed to allow for easy upgrade and expansion. The ReadyNAS can be configured to operate in a number of different RAID modes:
- X-RAID (Duo, NV+ and earlier models)
- X-RAID2 (Ultra and Pro models)
- X-RAID2 with dual-redundancy (6-bay models only and must start with at least 4 drives installed)
- Flex-RAID 0
- Flex-RAID 1
- Flex-RAID 5
- Flex-RAID 6 (6-bay models only and must start with at least 4 drives installed)
- Flex-RAID 10 (requires RAIDiator 4.2.16+)
In order to expand your volume automatically, you must have configured your ReadyNAS for one of the X-RAID modes. If you are running any of the Flex-RAID modes, you will not be able to expand your volume without backing up & restoring your data*.
*Notes: starting with RAIDiator 4.2.16 (for x86-based ReadyNAS devices only) volume expansion is now supported in Flex-RAID mode.
See this demonstration of X-RAID2 in action: http://www.readynas.com/?cat=53
What to do in the event that expansion does not start after upgrading your disks
There are a few options that can prevent X-RAID from expanding automatically:
- journaling is disabled
- spin-down is enabled
- snapshots are active and scheduled
Login to Frontview and check to see if any apply and temporarily change the setting to what is listed below.
- Frontview > System > Performance > Enable Journaling
- Frontview > System > Power > Disable disk spin-down
- Frontview > Volumes > Volume Settings > Snapshot > Delete any active snapshots & turn off snapshot schedule
After changing the settings go into Frontview > System > Shutdown > Check and Fix Quotas on next boot and expansion should begin.
If you’re still having difficulties, please see this very thorough how-to by mdgm over at the ReadyNAS forums: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=42113
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