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Aspirant

Jul 27, 2016

2TB to 4TB HDD Replacement: Data Degraded?

Hi, I had 4 Harddisks in the ReayNAS-314: 4TB/4TB/2TB/2TB. Then I've exchanged the first 2TB Harddisk and waited for a complete resync. (Now 4TB/4TB/3TB/2TB) After round about 24h syncing was compl...

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mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 27, 2016

Can you send in your logs (see the sending logs link in my sig)?

Is that a typo or did you really replace a 2TB disk with a 3TB disk?

rtrogemann
Aspirant
Jul 27, 2016
Hi, I've sent the log. Yes it's no typo. ;-) I know, it's not so much difference, but I had two 3TB Harddisks unused.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Jul 27, 2016
  rtrogemann wrote:
  
  Hi, I've sent the log. Yes it's no typo. ;-) I know, it's not so much difference, but I had two 3TB Harddisks unused.
  
  Actually there will be no space increase unless you do a factory reset.
  
  You can't add an intermediate size disk to an array.
  - mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jul 28, 2016
    Yes.
    
    Backing up and doing a factory reset (wipes all data, settings, everything) and restoring from backup is the way forward here.
    
    Looking at the logs one of the 3TB disks isn't being used by the data volume.
    
    When sending the logs in in future please follow the instructions and include a link to your thread in the body of the email.