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Migrate the system from single disk to RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 or RAID 10
Migrate the system from RAID 1 to RAID 5, RAID 6 or RAID 10
Migrate the system from RAID 5 with 3 hard drives to RAID 6
You need to:
Prepare a hard drive of the same or larger capacity as an existing drive in the RAID
configuration.
Execute RAID level migration (migrate the system from single disk mode to RAID 5
with 4 hard drives.)
1. Go to "Storage Manager" > "Volume Management". The current disk volume
configuration displayed on the page is single disk (the capacity is 250GB).
2. Plug in the new 250GB hard drives to drive slots 2 and 3 of NAS. The NAS will
detect the new hard drives. The status of the new hard drives is "Unmounted".
3. Go to "Storage Manager" > "RAID Management", click "Action" > "Migrate".
4. Select one or more available drives and the migration method. The drive capacity
after migration is shown. Click "Migrate".
5. Note that all the data on the selected hard drive will be cleared. Click "OK" to
confirm.
6. When migration is in process, the required time and total drive capacity after
migration are shown in the description field.
7. The NAS will enter "Read only" mode when migration is in process during 11%–49%
to assure the data of the RAID configuration will be consistent after RAID migration
completes.
8. After migration completes, the new drive configuration (RAID 5) is shown and the
status is Ready. You can start to use the new drive configuration.
The process may take from hours to tens of hours to finish depending on the hard drive
size. You can connect to the web page of the NAS to check the status later.
Online RAID Capacity Expansion
Scenario
You had a tight schedule to set up a file server and an FTP server. However, you had
only one 250GB hard drive. Therefore, you set up the TS-509 Pro with the single disk
configuration. The original plan was to set up a 3TB RAID 5 network data center with the
TS-509 Pro. You now plan to upgrade the disk configuration of the TS-509 Pro to RAID 5
and expand the total storage capacity to 3TB with all the original data retained after the