I have 4 bay My Cloud Ex4100 and want two difetents raid 01
Got it 👍 — you have a WD My Cloud EX4100 (4-bay NAS) and you’d like to set it up with two different RAID 1 arrays (essentially mirroring across two separate pairs of drives).
Here’s how you can do it:
🚨 Important Notes Before You Start
Backup First: Changing RAID will erase all data on the disks. Be sure to back up anything important.
Drive Pairs: You’ll need 4 drives total, paired as:
Drives 1 & 2 → RAID 1 Array A
Drives 3 & 4 → RAID 1 Array B
⚙️ Steps to Configure Two RAID 1 Arrays on EX4100
Log in to Dashboard
Open a browser → enter your NAS IP → log in to the My Cloud OS 5 Dashboard.
Go to Storage → RAID
Select the option to Configure RAID.
Choose Manual Disk Configuration
Instead of selecting a single RAID type for all 4 drives, select JBOD / Individual Volumes or Multiple Volumes.
Create Two Volumes
Set Drives 1 & 2 as one RAID 1 volume.
Set Drives 3 & 4 as another RAID 1 volume.
Apply & Rebuild
The system will erase and rebuild each array. This can take hours depending on drive size.
When finished, you’ll see two independent RAID 1 volumes available.
✅ What You Get
Two separate RAID 1 arrays, showing as Volume_1 and Volume_2 in the dashboard.
Each RAID 1 gives you redundancy (mirror copy).
You can use one for, say, personal data and the other for media/backup, or however you like.