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dnew24
Aspirant
Apr 08, 2016
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Hard Drive Upgrade

Upgraded the factory installed 2TB drives with 6TB WD60EFRX drives.  I installed one at a time and waited for the volume to rebuild each time.  The nas recognizes the drives but the volume is still the same size.  Is it possible to expand the volume while the system is still in a RAID10 configuration without backing up all 4TB of data to another location?

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  • JennC's avatar
    JennC
    Apr 08, 2016

    Hello dnew24,

     

    RAID 10 is FlexRAID and it is not expandable. You need to back the data first while you still can then factory reset the NAS with the new disks.

     

    This link might help.

     

    Regards,

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    JennC
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Apr 08, 2016

    Hello dnew24,

     

    Please provide the model number and FW version of the NAS.

     

    Welcome to the community!

     

    Regards,

    • dnew24's avatar
      dnew24
      Aspirant
      Apr 08, 2016

      This is a ReadyNAS 316 - 6 bay with firmware 6.4.2 installed.

      • JennC's avatar
        JennC
        NETGEAR Employee Retired
        Apr 08, 2016

        Hello dnew24,

         

        RAID 10 is FlexRAID and it is not expandable. You need to back the data first while you still can then factory reset the NAS with the new disks.

         

        This link might help.

         

        Regards,

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