This post will explain how you can easy upgrade to larger disks, using only the IX2-200 webpages.
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WARNING: following these steps will DESTROY all your data. I suggest you create a backup first and verify that the backup was successful or leave the box as it is.
Starting situation:
- IX2-200 with the latest firmware (2.1.38).
- 2x 1TB Seagate Barracuda LP disk in RAID1 (effectively ~1TB storage capacity).
- Failed RAID1 set.
- Create a backup of all the data/shares. Verify the backups!
- Remove one of the disks (in my case the failing disk) and add a new, larger disk.
- A rebuild of the RAID1 set will start.
- Change the disk configuration to JBOD (Settings > Disks > Manage Disks > Data Protection > Without data protection...). WARNING: this is the point where your data gets lost!
- The IX2-200 will reboot and construct the JBOD. This will take a few minutes. Wait until the JBOD is ready.
- Shutdown and replace the other disk with one of the same capacity as the other new disk.
- Startup and wait for the JBOD to be ready again.
- Change the disk configuration to RAID1 (Settings > Disks > Manage Disks > Data Protection > Mirror based...).
- The IX2-200 will reboot and construct the RAID1 set. Rebuild speed is ~250GB/hr.
- Restore the users, groups, settings, shares and data.
- 2x 2TB Samsung HD204UI disks in RAID1 (effectively ~2TB storage capacity).
- Impatience. It will take a few minutes before changes are reworked and many hours to rebuild a RAID1 set.
- Broken IX2-200 firmware/system software. See this blog post to rebuild a completely broken IX2-200 firmware/system software. Note: the provided IX2-200 software might be updated to the latest version. This is out of the scope of my post.
There is also a method using a USB stick with image. You can use http://{ix2 ip}/diagnostics.html (Cloud edition) for SSH and other diagnostics methods. - Other Iomega NASs. This post might work on other Iomega NAS devices but this has not been tested.
- Other brand NASs. You are on your own.
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