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Upgrading my readynas
I've had my ReadyNAS for ages. 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. After fixing everything I w...
Esoteric wrote:
It's all in RAID 5 right now.
I have attached a screen shot for reference.
It looks like the volume is inactive, which is not good.
I see two 4 TB drives - were you trying to install both? If so, did you wait for the resync to complete on the first one before you replaced the second?
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#M16364They 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!)
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.
Thanks!
Esoteric wrote:
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.
Looking again, the inactive volume is only disk 4. I am thinking it isn't actually blank - that it was formatted when you tried to add it before.
See if you can select that disk from the center graphic, and then reformat it.
That looks like it's going to work. Thanks. I just wanted clarification before I did anything after the last debacle!
The resync looks like it's going to take ages...
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.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.
Thanks again my good man.
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