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NAS 626x New Hard Drive
Hello, I recently installed a ReadyNAS 626x. I stated out with two HDD and just added a third. They two show up and are able to be used. The 3rd is listed, however it did not increase the disk ...
Nixxon wrote:
I recently installed a ReadyNAS 626x. I stated out with two HDD and just added a third. They two show up and are able to be used. The 3rd is listed, however it did not increase the disk size.
What sizes are the disks? In particular, is the third one smaller than the other two?
The 3rd drive is the same site as the first two. The last 3 will be 1 size smaller. They are 12 TB drives in there now and 10s after I get them working.
I did notice that in the Log file it says the at it's syncing and the peformence will be slower. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Thanks!
Nixxon wrote:
I did notice that in the Log file it says the at it's syncing and the peformence will be slower. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
It won't expand until it's done resyncing.
Nixxon wrote:
The 3rd drive is the same site as the first two. The last 3 will be 1 size smaller. They are 12 TB drives in there now and 10s after I get them working.
That won't work. You can't add smaller drives to an existing XRAID array.
- Thanks for the info on syncing. I’ll just wait till it’s done.
That’s interesting info about the drive sizes. The configuration template says it will work. Does that need to be done in the beginning? I thought the point of auto sizing the raid was for quick expansion?
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