User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1. Getting Started
- Start Using Your ReadyNAS System
- Additional Documentation
- Supported ReadyNAS Systems
- Supported Operating Systems
- Supported Browsers
- Diskless Systems
- Basic Installation
- Upgrade Pre-6.2 ReadyNAS Firmware for Use With ReadyCLOUD
- Discover and Set Up Your ReadyNAS Using ReadyCLOUD
- Local Setup Wizard
- Admin Page
- Access the Local Admin Page
- Register Your System
- Five Levels of Protection
- The ReadyNAS Community
- Safe Mode
- 2. Volume Configuration
- Basic Volume and RAID Concepts
- ReadyTIER, Tiers, Data, and Metadata
- Manage Volumes
- Change RAID Mode
- View the Status of a Volume
- Configure the Checksum Function
- Format Disks
- Create and Encrypt a Volume
- Delete a Volume
- Name a USB Drive
- Expand Storage Capacity
- Add Protection to a Volume
- Add Protection to a Flex-RAID Volume
- Add a Group to a Flex-RAID Volume
- Delete a RAID Group
- Use the Volume Management Wizard to Create a Volume
- Add a Tier to a Volume
- Enable or Disable Quotas on Volumes
- Maintain Volumes
- 3. Shares
- 4. LUNs
- 5. Snapshots
- 6. Users and Groups
- 7. Use Cloud Services
- 8. System Settings
- 9. System Power
- 10. Install and Manage Apps
- 11. System Monitoring
- 12. System Maintenance
- 13. Backup and Recovery
If your system contains multiple volumes, you must first reconfigure your disks into a
single volume. Alternatively, you can also remove the disks from the system while the
device is off.
Note: When you switch to X-RAID mode, any clean (meaning not part of another
volume or from another system) extra disks installed in your system are automatically
reformatted and used for storage expansion. You cannot change the RAID mode of a
RAID 0 or RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60 volumes.
To change from Flex-RAID to X-RAID on a single-volume system:
1. Log in to your ReadyNAS.
2. Select System > Volumes.
3. Click the X-RAID button at the right side of the page.
4. Confirm that you want to switch from Flex-RAID to X-RAID. The volume switches from
Flex-RAID mode to X-RAID mode and the indicator on the X-RAID button turns green.
Any available drives are automatically used for storage expansion.
Change to a Different Flex-RAID Level
In Flex-RAID mode, you assign one of several RAID levels to your volume. Available
RAID levels depend on the number of disks that you want the volume to include. For
more information, see Flex-RAID on page 26. You can reconfigure your volumes to use
a different RAID level.
Note: You can use the Add Parity button to change RAID levels.
To change RAID levels:
1. Log in to your ReadyNAS.
2. If any data is stored on the volumes that you want to reconfigure, back up your data.
3. Delete the volumes that you want to reconfigure (see Delete a Volume on page 36).
The disks that were part of the volumes become available again for other purposes
(the color of the disks turns black).
4. Create a new volume from the available disks and select the RAID level (see Create
and Encrypt a Volume on page 35).
Software Manual30Volume Configuration
ReadyNAS OS 6.10