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2 TB and 4 TB drives - looking to expand drive space
Hi there - I am a novice and new to NAS set ups. I have an RN104 and two drives, 1 2TB and 1 4TB, at present it is saying I have a maximum of 2TB available - if I purchase an additional 4TB drive - wh...
Are you setup in Xraid or flexraid?
What firmware is on the nas?
When did you last factory default the nas?
Do you have a backup?
Replacing the 2tb with a 4 tb will increase the volume size to about 3.6 TiB.(vertical expansion)
If you add the 4 tb disk in the 3rd slot it will increase to about 5.4 TiB if you are using Xraid. If you are in flexraid you would need to switch to Xraid first then horizontally expand.
There is information about this in the manual.
You may find this useful:
http://ram.kossboss.com/xraid/
I would strongly advise having an up to date , verified backup before expanding.
If the last reset was on firmware 6.1.4 or earlier, you may want to consider a factory default (wipes disks) and restore from backup as there were some filesystem changes in 6.1.5. Note that this is not absolutely essential.
edit: I see that the volume size calculator is currently not working.
What firmware is on the nas?
When did you last factory default the nas?
Do you have a backup?
Replacing the 2tb with a 4 tb will increase the volume size to about 3.6 TiB.(vertical expansion)
If you add the 4 tb disk in the 3rd slot it will increase to about 5.4 TiB if you are using Xraid. If you are in flexraid you would need to switch to Xraid first then horizontally expand.
There is information about this in the manual.
You may find this useful:
http://ram.kossboss.com/xraid/
I would strongly advise having an up to date , verified backup before expanding.
If the last reset was on firmware 6.1.4 or earlier, you may want to consider a factory default (wipes disks) and restore from backup as there were some filesystem changes in 6.1.5. Note that this is not absolutely essential.
edit: I see that the volume size calculator is currently not working.
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