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ReadyNAS PRO 6 / Western Digital Red WD40EFRX
Advance note: I'm ready to be told 'it isn't in the HW Compatibility List - go away' (blush). I've got a ReadyNAS Pro 6, all bays full, with a RAID 6 Volume. After disk failures, I added (at differen...
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When you added all four 4 tb disks, did you factory default the nas?
You would of course have lost the data on the volume when you did this.( either just adding them or factory defaulting)
In addition, if you did not factory default, you will have exceed the maximum possible volume expansion of 8TiB when you tried to expand to a raid 6 volume with six 4 tb disks from your original setup which seems to have been mainly 1.5 tb disks with one ( or maybe more ) 2 tb disks. What was the volume size when you last did a factory default.
I would redo your backup and verify it, then backup your config, then factory default the nas with five 4 tb disks in (edited as you won't be able to factory default straight into raid6 of course).Then restore your config. If you have any addons install these before restoring the config. Add the sixth disk and select dual redundancy. Finally restore your data.
This may be useful:
http://ram.kossboss.com/xraid/
When you added all four 4 tb disks, did you factory default the nas?
You would of course have lost the data on the volume when you did this.( either just adding them or factory defaulting)
In addition, if you did not factory default, you will have exceed the maximum possible volume expansion of 8TiB when you tried to expand to a raid 6 volume with six 4 tb disks from your original setup which seems to have been mainly 1.5 tb disks with one ( or maybe more ) 2 tb disks. What was the volume size when you last did a factory default.
I would redo your backup and verify it, then backup your config, then factory default the nas with five 4 tb disks in (edited as you won't be able to factory default straight into raid6 of course).Then restore your config. If you have any addons install these before restoring the config. Add the sixth disk and select dual redundancy. Finally restore your data.
This may be useful:
http://ram.kossboss.com/xraid/
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