If you have a NETGEAR Readynas NAS and you want to migrate your data to a bigger disk, there is not too much information in the Netgear Forum about how to do it.
Here is how you can do it. You will require an external Linux machine (a Raspberry PI or Banana PI/Pro can do the trick)
First, you have the RAID 1 set up with (i.e) 2x 2Tb disks.
Attach the new disk to one of the available USB ports in the NAS.
Sync the entire 2tb disk onto the new (i.e) 5Tb disk with:
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Nowadays the hardisks are almost cheaper so creating a RAID1 is a good way to keep your data safe without waste too much money. If you have two disks with same size use them to create mirrored Storage Repository in XEN with the help of mdadm raid software, by default installed in a XEN distribution.
SATA is always the best option to have a good I/O but as a test system IDE disks will be valid as well.
Let's start. First, create the md devices in /dev
# cd /dev
# MAKEDEV md
now create a RAID1 Read more...