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Upgrading HHD
Howdy, just trying to figure this out, and am not sure if this is normal I'm currently upgrading my 3TB HDD's in my Readynas314 to 8TB HDD. Raid 5 All the reading I've done tells me to replace 1 d...
alpal178 wrote:
So I started with 8.16 TB now after replacing 2 of the 3TB drives with 2 8TB drives I now have 12.67 TB showing as the volume size is this normal.
The volume size will expand when you add the second larger disk, and you are seeing the right volume size.
You will see a additional 5 TB (~4.5 TiB) increase when you replace each of the next two - giving you 24 TB (~21.8 TiB) total.
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