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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 t...

Hard Disk

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,

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

Aspirant

Apr 08, 2016

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

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,
- dnew24
  Aspirant
  Apr 08, 2016
  Thank you. That was my fear.
  - mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Apr 11, 2016
    In 6.5.0 expansion of RAID-10 volumes should work. If you have not already done the factory reset you may wish to try ReadyNASOS 6.5.0-T338 (Beta 2)