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Adding a volume failed
I am reaching 80% of storage use on my 2 volumes (2T each) NAS. So I decided to add another disk. I bough the same type (seagate baracuda) but 3T. When I add the disk I receive this message: The ...
The WD20EARX is on the HCL for the NV+ (v1) so should do fine. If you will press momentarily the power button to illuminate the LED panel, the second line should say "C: 2.2/3.7T free" if on the other hand it says "C: .3/1.8T free" there is still a problem.
From your initial post you said that you have drives in bays 3 and 4 and in your latest post you have added a third drive. Assuming all the drives are 2TB, you should have a volume of approximately 3724 GB showing in the volume settings (open RAIDiator then click on Volumes and then Volume Settings) page. It should show the three drives with a green dot icon in front of the channel number, then the drive mfg and model, the size available in GB and then the amount allocated in GB. At the top, it should say, xxxxGB (xx%) of 3724GB used. If you started with 80% of the volume used you should now be at around 40%.
You should definitely have noticed the resync as it would have taken somewhere between 6 and 8 hours to complete. If your volume was redundant before you started, and it should have been with two drives, then the mere fact that your volume is still redundant would not have changed. If your available volume is still around 1862GB and about 80% used, no resync has taken place. If your total volume with 3x2TB drives is not around 3.7TB, please post back. If it is, then everything is fine.
From your initial post you said that you have drives in bays 3 and 4 and in your latest post you have added a third drive. Assuming all the drives are 2TB, you should have a volume of approximately 3724 GB showing in the volume settings (open RAIDiator then click on Volumes and then Volume Settings) page. It should show the three drives with a green dot icon in front of the channel number, then the drive mfg and model, the size available in GB and then the amount allocated in GB. At the top, it should say, xxxxGB (xx%) of 3724GB used. If you started with 80% of the volume used you should now be at around 40%.
You should definitely have noticed the resync as it would have taken somewhere between 6 and 8 hours to complete. If your volume was redundant before you started, and it should have been with two drives, then the mere fact that your volume is still redundant would not have changed. If your available volume is still around 1862GB and about 80% used, no resync has taken place. If your total volume with 3x2TB drives is not around 3.7TB, please post back. If it is, then everything is fine.
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