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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 f...
Hmm, that only accounts for 6 of the 8 drives, so something more is wrong. Are you sure it's 8 drives and was 8 before swapping any? If it were 8, it should already have been RAID6 under XRAID.
I think I can understand why the last drive (which from the information given should be the 8th, not the 6th) didn't get the last partition and didn't get added to the RAID. At that point, the unit was in FlexRAID. And FlexRAID expects to operate on all drives at the same time, not incrementally as with XRAID. So, it didn't know what to do with that lone drive. But all but that last one should have been added to the volume as the drives were replaced in XRAID. The information StephenB posted seems to indicate that they were. But maybe the OS is confused since that last expansion didn't take place.
As StephenB said, the volume is expanded, it just didn't (fully) expand this time. So the message that you can't go from FlexRAID to XRAID with an expanded volume is appropriate (to the extent that's a limitation of the OS).
Yeah my fault on which model it is. She has at least four, I thought she was talking about another one.
I can confirm it is is a 316
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