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NV+v2 more than 12tb storage?
Hi, One of my drives is starting to fail and i am looking at replacements. When i bought the nas it supported a maximum of 4x3tb drives. Checked the hdd compatability list now and there is one...
krth8 wrote:
Checked the hdd compatability list now and there is one 4tb drive listed there. could i change out all my drives to get 4x4tb?
That should work. The HCL is very old, and Netgear hasn't kept it up to date for a long time. I recommend WDC Red or Seagate Ironwolf for your new disks. They should both work well.
Your NAS should end up with a 12 TB (10.9 TiB) volume.
Note that your NAS does have two expansion limits:
- a volume can't be expanded more to a size greater than 16 TiB.
- a volume can't grow more than 8 TiB from it's starting point.
The first limit doesn't apply in your case, but the second one might. For instance if you had 1x3TB or 2x3TB when you first installed the NAS, then you will exceed it, and the expansion will fail when you add the last disk. If that happens, you'd need to do a factory reset with all disks in place.
Thanks for the info. Much appreciated.
The volume was built with all 4 disks at once.
so i should now easily be able to add one and one drive untill i have 16tb?
The nv+v2 is slow, but it has been good to me. I may upgrade the device a bit later on but i am curious to how long this one will live :)
Yes (getting a 12 TB volume). Just make sure the resync is complete before you upgrade the next disk. Also, reboot the NAS after you upgrade the second disk. You should get a prompt at the point, but reboot it even if you don't. Then wait for vertical expansion to complete before you move on to disk 3.
krth8 wrote:
so i should now easily be able to add one and one drive untill i have 16tb?Hi,
I have now received the drive and swapped it out and resync is done.
On the readynas dashboard it recognises the hard drive as a 4tb drive but i still have the same amount of space as before.
Also, I am still getting channel 1 failure with the new drive, which makes me think it is something wrong with the firmware?
I updated the firmware to 5.3.13 before i swapped the drives.
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