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Installing new larger drives RN 202, RAID 1
Good day folks, I did some searching but didn't find what I wanted. Or maybe I didn't get lucky. Alomng with that frankly I wasn't sure if this was the best choice of sub forum. So please if I picked...
The process is to first hot-insert one new drive, and wait for the resync to complete. Then hot-insert the second drive. After the second resync, the volume will expand.
The other approach is to back up the data, power down, and install both new drives. Then reconfigure the NAS, and restore data from backup. This avoids the extra resyns, and If something were to go wrong, you still have the original drives.
Good day folks, Ok so I did not have to do a reset for the password as I had forgoten about the fact that user names are CASE sensitive-uggg
I got in and a F/W update was ready to load so I allowed that before putting in a new drive. Aftyer that completed a second F/W update was ready so I installed that.
this brings the unit up to 6.4.2
I pulled the #2 drive and inserted the new 4TB drive, verified it was resyncing and left it be, I didn't get a chance to check it for 7 hours but at that time the sync had completed.
So in the next day or so I;ll get the second larger 4 TB installed.
A new twist and this will be for a new thread, turns out the bulk of the space used was from daily Snapshots!!! But it appears that since the unit has now updated the snapshots did not update properly and I can not delete them without assistance from someone here as it will require SSH access etc. I can not do the backup wipe and restore routine. There is just no time in this office for them to be down that long.
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