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Issue with hard drive upgrade and xraid
Hi everyone,
Hoping someone can lend some help and maybe provide a solution.
I am helping a friend out with her ReadyNAS. She's not big on being on forums or social media so relaying things for her.
She has a ReadyNAS 428 running 6.10.9, it had eight 10TB drives in one volume. With five 8TB drives in an EDA500
She wanted to upgrade the first volume with 16TB to get more storage. As a cautionary measure due to my own experience with ReadyNAS. I told her to turn off X-raid before putting in the last drive to upgrade.
In the past, every time I've done an upgrade of drives, ReadyNAS has changed from Raid5 to Raid6 on me without asking if I wanted to do that.
So once the last drive sync'd she tried to turn x-raid back on. Unfortunately she now gets this message
"You are attempting to to switch from Flex-RAID to X-Raid. This is not possible because you have expanded volumes"
From what I've been told by someone who looked at the logs. It seems that it tried to change the raid level when drive two finished syncing. But it never did and the volume is not expanded.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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leo037 wrote:
In the past, every time I've done an upgrade of drives, ReadyNAS has changed from Raid5 to Raid6 on me without asking if I wanted to do that.It will do that if you are adding drives to an empty slot, but it cannot do that if all 8 slots are already in use.
leo037 wrote:
From what I've been told by someone who looked at the logs. It seems that it tried to change the raid level when drive two finished syncing. But it never did and the volume is not expanded.What drives sizes are installed now? 8x16TB?
If not, what is the mix of 10 and 16 TB drives?
Yeah I'll say that's not true. My old 428 had eight 6TB drives and when I went to all 10TB drives it flipped from raid5 to raid6 on me and I got stuck having to live with that for a few years.
She had eight 10TB drives in it and now all eight 16TB drives in volume 1
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