help Synology NAS Raid Issues: Help needed

[Malbo]

Hey All,

 

I am hoping somewhere here can help me out. I run a very basic small Synology NAS (DS-218J) at home for media. I recently filled it and added a second drive but the capacity has not increased. The original HDD was 2TB and the new one was 4TB.  I added it to the same pool but it now defaulted to SHR raid type (Synology specific I believe) which only allows one drive capacity and it's using the already full drive. I want to use either JBOD or Raid 0

 to get the full capacity but the function to change the Raid type is greyed out as you can see in the second image below. 

 

Any idea how I can resolve this as I now have a new HDD that's wasted? The system only has two drive bays by the way and both are now filled.

 

Thanks for any help in advance

 

Storage Pool Info:

 

Greyed out Raid options:

[Kid.Lazer]

Most consumer NAS's default to an X-raid (or raid1 for 2-drive systems) configuration, which will just use your new drive as hardware redundancy (as you have found out). The only to way to fix it from here is to backup all your data externally, remove the current volume, then recreate the volume as JBOD or raid0.

 

You might be able to pull your new 4TB drive, then reconfigure the volume to "basic", and then reinstall your new drive.

[Malbo]

@jakkuh_t I need your NAS expertise.. 

[Malbo]

1 minute ago, Kid.Lazer said:

Most consumer NAS's default to an X-raid (or raid1 for 2-drive systems) configuration, which will just use your new drive as hardware redundancy (as you have found out). The only to way to fix it from here is to backup all your data externally, remove the current volume, then recreate the volume as JBOD or raid0.

You're kidding me. Is there no other way?  Even if I could designate the 4tb as the main and retain the 2tb as redundancy I could live with that. I don't have any external of that size to back up to, would prefer to not have to buy somethign

[Kid.Lazer]

I just added this edit when you replied.

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You might be able to pull your new 4TB drive, then reconfigure the volume to "basic", and then reinstall your new drive.

Give it a try and see what happens. If this data is critical, it should be backed up externally regardless.

 

Edit: found this on reddit:

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Deactivate a drive, create a new jbod storage pool 2 on your inactive drive, create a new volume 2 on your jbod storage pool, move your shared folders from volume 1 to volume 2, delete volume 1, delete storage pool 1, add your unused drive to storage pool 2, expand volume 2.

 

[Malbo]

I'll give the drive deactivation a go. Hopefully, that works. 

 

[Malbo]

16 minutes ago, Kid.Lazer said:

I just added this edit when you replied.

Give it a try and see what happens. If this data is critical, it should be backed up externally regardless.

 

Edit: found this on reddit:

 

This looks like it will do the trick! Thanks so much!