Lost my Raid Structure after adding new disks

G-Technology G-RAID & G-DOCK
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Hi

I’ve replaced the disks in my G-Raid Studio with larger disks and lost the Raid Structure.
I followed the article that was linked in a similar post, and have been able to created a new raid. however the G-Raid Studio Configurator software does not recognize this drive…

Is this a problem or is it just doing the same job that I managed in Terminal??

Thanks Dai

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Hello,

The other thread that you specified and I saw your post in was for the G-RAID Thunderbolt. It is not the same device as the G-RAID Studio. The G-RAID Studio configurator only works on the Studio device. If you have the G-RAID Thunderbolt which is a silver drive then it is managed only by Disk Utility/Terminal.

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Sorry, it’s is a Black G-Raid studio, and has duel thunderbolt connections…I’ve swapped the disks from 3TB (6TB in total) to 4 4TB (8TB in total) using HSGT as suggested in this forum a few weeks back. :grinning:

Thanks Dai

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OK.

In that case you should not have any issues with the G-RAID Studio software. When you launch it does it just tell you that there is no supported drive found? Which type of drives did you replace them with?

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Hi

I used these drives:

Yes - No supported drives found

Thanks Dai

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Dai,

There should be no issue with adding in your own drives especially our drives like the ones you are using in order to create the RAID. We haven’t seen this come up before. Were the drives you are trying to convert used prior in another RAID environment?

If you used the Terminal article from the other post it would have placed the drives into a software RAID and it would likely show as incompatible drives. They need to essentially be RAW drives in order for the configurator to work. You will need to remove the work you did with the terminal commands by deleting it. Please call our support line if you need more assistance. (888) 426-5214

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The drives were fresh out of the packet. Needed to transfer work onto drive to make start on new project.

So does this mean I’ve created a software Raid Mirror and not using the build in hardware inside the G-raid Studio? Will this mean the performance of the current set up is slower than it should be??

Have a 4K work flow to sort out and speed will be an issue.

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Dai,

If you followed one of those software RAID articles from the other thread then yes you created a software RAID. It is still going to be a good performance but might be a little slower than if the hardware controller on the Studio was handling it.