{"id":1517,"date":"2009-09-02T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/readynas-duo-with-no-available-disk-space.htm"},"modified":"2009-09-02T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:41:22","slug":"readynas-duo-with-no-available-disk-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/readynas-duo-with-no-available-disk-space.htm","title":{"rendered":"ReadyNAS Duo with no available disk space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netgear.co.uk\/readynasduo.php\">Netgear ReadyNAS Duo<\/a> was delivered at lunchtime today.  This is the second ReadyNAS Duo I&#8217;ve bought and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/netgear-readynas-low-cost-raid-storage-for-the-consumer.htm\">the first is happily serving media and other files to my home network<\/a>, whereas this one is intended to be hacked so that it can become an inexpensive iSCSI target (I hope).<\/p>\n<p>I bought the RND2000 (i.e. the model with no disks installed) as I already have a spare 500MB disk from the first ReadyNAS (which has since been upgraded to use a pair of 1TB Seagate Barracudas) and NetGear&#8217;s current offer of a free hard drive will allow me to make this single disk one half of a RAID 1 mirror.  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