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ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus.... 18TB -> 24TB
Hi, Currently using 6x3TB Seagate 3TB ST3000DM001 drives on a ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus. Not a very good drive though imo, had already 2 bad ones, curiously both were in slot No.2 of the NAS... wondered...
frusnet wrote:
StephenB wrote: I believe the plan was to go from 6x3TB dual redundancy (12 TB volume) to 6x4TB dual redundancy (16 TB volume). Original info was that the 6x3TB was the starting point.
If all that is correct, then OP hasn't hit either expansion limit. Of course if the original install was actually done in stages he might be hitting the 8 TiB growth limit.
That is correct.
Original install was done in one shot as 6x3TB.... (not incremental).
I started formatting 3TB's I took out and I will backup everything in NAS to these.
Then I've no idea.....best sounds like to reset to factory defaults with 6x4TB's in place...then copy everything back...ufffff.
it sounds like you started with 6x 3tb SINGLE redundancy.
I'm currently using X-RAID2 with dual-redundancy. I cut&paste volume:
Volume C: Online, X-RAID2, 6 disks, 81% of 13 TB used
6x 3tb at dual redunancy would get you about 10-11tb not 13.
what does it say on the frontview > volumes page?
Wed May 7 09:04:35 EEST 2014 Data volume has been successfully expanded to 15740 GB.
this line here says you are already up to 16tb
meaning no matter what, your are not going to expand further without some kind of factory default.
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