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tju2
Apr 10, 2017Aspirant
Readynas 626x expansion
New Readynas 626x running 6.6.1. I started with 2 2tb drives in the default xraid config. I then added 4 4tb drives, so I now have two 2tb drives in slots 1,2, and the rest are 4tb drives. The xraid moved from raid 1 to raid 5, and expanded the volume, as expected. However, it appears as if it's only using 2tb on the 4tb drives, rather than expanding to use the full 4tb. My total volume space is now 9tb, which sounds like 6 2tb drives in raid 5 config. I'm not using encryption or anything else. I thought the xraid would utilitze the 4tb drives to their max once I had more than 1 in there. Do I need to replace the older 2tb drives to utilize the space? My old Pioneer edition nas handled the incremental adding of larger drives well.
Thank you,
TJ
7 Replies
- jak0lantashMentor
Did you try to reboot the NAS? It's not unheard of that a reboot helps trigger the creation of the sub RAID array on the unused capacity.
You can also download the logs from the GUI and look into systemd-journal for "expansion".
- tju2Aspirant
Thanks for the reply! I did reboot, but I haven't looked at the logs. I'll go grab those and take a look. Thanks!
- xiao123NETGEAR Expert
tju2 wrote:
Thanks for the reply! I did reboot, but I haven't looked at the logs. I'll go grab those and take a look. Thanks!
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