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Added 2x 4TB - Total Storage Volume did not increase
Hi, hope someone can advice.
I am running to the limit of the HD capacity and decided to replace 2 of the current installed disks with 2 higher capacity disks. Followed advise given to me in a ...
Thanks again for all the assistance!
It worked.
SOLUTION:
Add first 4TB disk, and let it resync. Then add second 4TB disk, and let it resync. Followed by restarting the unit after the second disk resync is finished. This will enable a new relocation process. After this is finished, the extra TB are added to the available storage amount.
If it did not expand AT ALL, not even when the first drive was inserted, are you sure you have a V2? Your screen captures haven't been enabled by a moderator, so I can't tell from them.
A V2 is black and has an external power supply. The V1 is silver and has an internal power supply. Pay no attention to any mention of "V2" on a sticker on the bottom of the unit. Netgear confused everyone by reusing the "V2" designation for something completely different.
If you have a V1, it is incompatible with the 4TB drives.
Sandshark wrote:
Your screen captures haven't been enabled by a moderator, so I can't tell from them.
They are now, and they do show the correct size for the 4 TB drives - so I concluded it was a v2 earlier. Also, if it were a v1, the volume would be dead, since the 4 TB drives would have been detected as < 1 TB, so the RAID array wouldn't have resynced at all.
As you know, I can see unapproved images, but unfortunately I can't easily see that others can't.
Sandshark wrote:
If it did not expand AT ALL, not even when the first drive was inserted...
This is vertical expansion only (4x2TB -> 2x2TB+2x4TB), so there wouldn't be any expansion when the first drive was inserted.
In most ReadyNAS, the vertical expansion is triggered by a reboot. That wouldn't be needed later on (when/if you upgrade the other 2 TB drives to 4 TB). So try the reboot first.
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