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May 03, 2016

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What is this RN204 doing?

I initally created the system with 4x1.5TB drives. No problem. A few weeks later, I replaced the 1.5 in slot 1 with a 4 TB drive. I think it took a little over 24 hours to resync, but again no pr...

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BrianL2
May 11, 2016
Hi RDD,

I believe this is the setup that you want but it took a few hiccups and lot of time to accomplish. Anyway, let me thank you for providing feedback and for updating the thread that you've started. We would like to encourage you to mark this thread resolved by clicking the "Accept as Solution" button in one of the responses that you received.

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BrianL
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RDD

Guide

May 06, 2016

Ok. Sent the logs off.

The 1.5 TB drives finished resyncing this morning. Appear to be in a inaccessable volume.

All my data (which was in one volume on 4 drives) appears to be intact on the 2 4 TB drives. I am using this NAS as a backup device only. I have 5 Windows PC running Acronis True Image 2016. Acronis timed out and no backup accrued while the 4 TB drive was resyncing. However once that finished and the 1.5 drives started resyncing, the Acronis backups were successful.

Unless someone has a better suggestion, I think I will power it down and physically remove the 1.5 drives. Then try to hot add one back. Anybody know what would happen if I moved the 4 TB from slot 3 to slot 2 while it was down?

Retired_Member
May 06, 2016
RDD wrote:

Unless someone has a better suggestion, I think I will power it down and physically remove the 1.5 drives. Then try to hot add one back. Anybody know what would happen if I moved the 4 TB from slot 3 to slot 2 while it was down?
Please don't do that. Playing with removing drives, hot adding drives, will cause RAID failure at best, and data loss at worst.
If I were you, I would contact support so they can check from the backend, or at least wait for someone to look at your logs.