Upgrading my readynas

Question

I've had my ReadyNAS for ages.&nbsp;I recently tried to swap out my drives to upgrade and it all failed. Luckily, there were some awesome people on here to help me out.&nbsp;After fixing everything I want to expand my readyNAS with a 4tb drive. When I add the new drive it just mounts it as inactive. I looked through my product's instructions and it's so unclear... How do I upgrady an extra 4tb and still keep my existing data? It's all in RAID 5 right now.&nbsp;I have attached a screen shot for reference.&nbsp;

StephenB · Answer

Esoteric&nbsp;wrote:
It's all in RAID 5 right now.
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I have attached a screen shot for reference.
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It looks like the volume is inactive, which is not good.
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I see two 4 TB drives - were you trying to install both?&nbsp; If so, did you wait for the resync to complete on the first one before you replaced the second?

Esoteric · Answer

Hey StephenB !Not sure if you remember but you recently helped me here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Storage-Apps-Old-Legacy/Remove-inactive-volumes-after-hard-drive-upgrade-RN104/m-p/2121272#M16364&nbsp;They got all of it up and running again with the three disks that worked. (Don't worry, I have a back up of everything now too!)&nbsp;This 4tb disk is the one where it failed to resync and caused all my problems. Do I need to format it or something? It was a blank hard drive. I'm just trying to expand my space in my RN104.&nbsp;Thanks!

StephenB · Answer

Esoteric&nbsp;wrote:
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This 4tb disk is the one where it failed to resync and caused all my problems. Do I need to format it or something? It was a blank hard drive. I'm just trying to expand my space in my RN104.
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Looking again, the inactive volume is only disk 4.&nbsp; I am thinking it isn't actually blank - that it was formatted when you tried to add it before.
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See if you can select that disk from the center graphic, and then reformat it.

Esoteric · Answer

That looks like it's going to work. Thanks. I just wanted clarification before I did anything after the last debacle!&nbsp;The resync looks like it's going to take ages...&nbsp;One other quick thing you may be able to help with:When I do a backup to a seperate external drive, it says it fails to backup any of my .dmg files (that are old programs for Mac). It will back up everything else.&nbsp;Is this normal thing that's excluded (.dmg files)? I understand if you don't know, but thought I would ask. They're old, so not that important... I'm just curious why they would fail and everything else would work.&nbsp;Thanks again my good man.

StephenB · Answer

Esoteric&nbsp;wrote:
When I do a backup to a seperate external drive, it says it fails to backup any of my .dmg files (that are old programs for Mac). It will back up everything else.

That should be working.&nbsp; How is the external drive formatted?

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