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Hi everyone, I have my ReadyNas setup and I have 3x 3TB drives and 1x 12TB Drive but for some reason it does not seem to pick up the storage on the 12TB drive. Do you know why this could be? ...
Laks86 wrote:
I have my ReadyNas setup and I have 3x 3TB drives and 1x 12TB Drive but for some reason it does not seem to pick up the storage on the 12TB drive.
Do you know why this could be?
It's because you need to use two 12 TB drives. The capacity rule for XRAID is "sum the disks and subtract the largest". In your case that is 9 TB (~8.18 TiB). The reason for this is that the system is set up for RAID redundancy - keeping your data available during routine disk replacements or failures.
The other option is to start over with the 3x3TB drives installed. Then switch to flexraid, and add the 12 TB drive as it's own jbod volume. You won't have RAID redundancy on the 12 TB volume it you do that.
Laks86 wrote:
Thanks for that. Do you think I should just sell one of the 3TB drives and replace it with another 12TB drive? I have the money for it.
I would rather keep the RAID setup on all drives.
That would work. Just hot-swap the 3 TB drive with the new 12 TB drive (with the NAS running). It will start a resync process, and it will take a while for the NAS to expand to use the full space. The volume size will be 18 TB (16 TiB). The NAS uses TiB units on the web UI, but calls it TB (as Windows also does).
StephenB wrote:
Laks86 wrote:Thanks for that. Do you think I should just sell one of the 3TB drives and replace it with another 12TB drive? I have the money for it.
I would rather keep the RAID setup on all drives.
That would work. Just hot-swap the 3 TB drive with the new 12 TB drive (with the NAS running). It will start a resync process, and it will take a while for the NAS to expand to use the full space. The volume size will be 18 TB (16 TiB). The NAS uses TiB units on the web UI, but calls it TB (as Windows also does).
Perfect thank you for that.
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