New User needs help with single disk to RAID 1 change

[leroy_j_nav]

Hi, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to configure my TS-228 from a single disk to a two disk RAID 1 system. Background: I started with a single 4TB disk in a non RAID configuration - just a NAS drive, and then loaded all of my files onto it - about 2.5TB. I then bought another 4TB disk to set the system up as a RAID 1 system. I have tried re configuring the TS-228 for RAID 1, but to no avail. When I go into the Control Panel App/Storage Manager/Wizard to "create a storage pool", there are No disks to select, even though I see them in Storage Manager. Only my first disk has data, the second disk is empty. I am running firmware version 4.3.4.0435 Build Q168B16398.

I must be going through this completely the wrong way, can anyone please point me in the right direction... I hope that I don't have to start from scratch and reformat my DataVol1 disk...

[dolbyman]

did you check the online manual?

[samjam]

I had the same problem; I knew "what to do" and "how to do it" I just couldn't find where to do it.

Now you don't need to create a storage pool; you've either already created one, or you are using plain partitions and it's too late to create one; but either way it's not related to your task at hand which is to "migrate raid" from single disk to raid-1.

What you need to do I can't confirm until later today when I have my next disk ready to do it again, but I think this is the right part of the docs: http://docs.qnap.com/nas/4.3/cat2/en/in ... groups.htm under Migrating Raid Configuration

Note: What the MANAGE button does depends on what you have selected, and the new disk won't show up there until you start to migrate

Migrating RAID Configuration

With this function, a RAID configuration can be migrated to a different RAID configuration. This option is supported for the following drive configurations: Migrating single drives to RAID 1; Migrating RAID 1 to RAID 5; Migrating RAID 5 to RAID 6. Follow these steps to migrate a RAID configuration:

1. Go to "Storage Manager" > "STORAGE" > "Storage Space".
2. Double click a storage pool to bring up the Storage Pool Management page.
3. Select a RAID group and click "Manage" > "Migrate".
4. Select the hard disk drive(s) from the list and click "Apply".
5. Please note that all data on the selected hard disk drive(s) will be erased. Click "Yes" if you are certain about this.
6. The chosen RAID configuration is migrated to the new one.

[samjam]

Here's the steps I did:

1. Open Storage & Snapshots
2. Storage section,
3. Choose Storage/Snapshots section
4. Click on the Storage Pool
5. Click on manage, and it opens a storage pool management window.
6. Click on the raid group or whatever top level item you have in the table
7. Click on Manage
8. Click on Migrate

See an image here https://photos.app.goo.gl/mtZD3XzD5JN0Hu143
or here: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PcsiZ ... 37-h830-no

[leroy_j_nav]

Hi samjam, thank you for the directions - I appreciate it, I will try it out right now. BTW - how long does it take for the system to mirror the data to the second disk? Disk 1 has about 2.5TB of data.

[leroy_j_nav]

samjam, I get to step 3 below, but my "manage" button is grayed out.

Qnap 1.jpg

[samjam]

That is step 7 surely?
And you missed step 6 perhaps? Did you click on "Raid Group 1" in the table to enable "Manage"