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2 resyncs after drive upgraded
I've got a 516 that loaded with 4TB drives. I've been replacing them with 6TB drives for a while now. I'm setup with RAID 6. The process i use is to pull out the 4TB drive, and put the 6TB drive...
The NAS preserves the original 6x1TB raid layer, and adds a new 3TB layer on top (currently 5x3TB). Both layers needed to be synced, so there are two phases.
Since RAID-6 requires the four largest drives to be the same size, you should have seen expansion from 4 TB to 10 TB when you added upgraded the 4th drive. The NAS likely needed to be rebooted at that point.
When I said drive 4 and 5, i meant the 4th and 5th 6TB drive that i've put in. So 5x6TB drives and 1x4TB drives currently.
The NAS preserves the original 6x1TB raid layer, and adds a new 3TB layer on top (currently 5x3TB). Both layers needed to be synced, so there are two phases.
Since RAID-6 requires the four largest drives to be the same size, you should have seen expansion from 4 TB to 10 TB when you added upgraded the 4th drive. The NAS likely needed to be rebooted at that point.
Thanks for the explanation. :)
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