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Upgrading disks in a RN316
I have a RN316 populated with Seagate 4TB drives. Drives are getting really old now, and finally stating to fail after 6+ years of power on time. 🙂 I had disk 4 fail, and I replaced it with a 8...
Sandshark wrote:
If you didn't enable XRAID, then you will not get that additional 4TB of space automatically added, nor can you add it via the GUI when in FlexRAID mode.
Leaving the mdstat printout aside, the web ui does show a volume size of 40 TB, so the volume does look like it expanded to 6x8TB RAID-5. It did not expand until the last disk was inserted, which is consistent with page 41 of the software manual.
Actually, it is exactly as expected.
md126 is the RAID in the EDA500.
md127 is the RAID of all 4TB drives and a 4TB partition of the 8TB ones in the main NAS.
If you enabled XRAID before you added the latest 8TB, then there will be yet another RAID (RAID1 for now) created and sync'ed using the two remaining 4TB partitions of the 8TB drives once the current sync finishes, then concatenated with the volume on md127. If you didn't enable XRAID, then you will not get that additional 4TB of space automatically added, nor can you add it via the GUI when in FlexRAID mode. I do not know whether or not you will get the expansion if you enable XRAID now or when the current sync completes.
Sandshark wrote:
If you didn't enable XRAID, then you will not get that additional 4TB of space automatically added, nor can you add it via the GUI when in FlexRAID mode.
Leaving the mdstat printout aside, the web ui does show a volume size of 40 TB, so the volume does look like it expanded to 6x8TB RAID-5. It did not expand until the last disk was inserted, which is consistent with page 41 of the software manual.
Several of the screen captures are not visible to a normal forum user, so I was unaware that he had replaced all drives.
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