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DrJones
Nov 20, 2012Aspirant
Added 3rd drive to Ultra 6...same volume size?
Hi. I have an Ultra 6 with 2x2TB seagate drives. I purchased a third 2tb drive (identical model to the other two) to increase our storage capacity. The NAS sees the drive, worked on it for a whi...
DrJones
Nov 22, 2012Aspirant
vandermerwe wrote: What is the displayed volume size?
What is the displayed size of each disk?
What does your log say about initialisation and resync of the new disk?
If the volume is still around 2tb, then I would suggest that the new disk is probably faulty
Volume C: Online, X-RAID2, 3 disks, 77% of 1846 GB used
Ch 1 : Seagate ST32000542AS [1863 GB]
1858 GB allocated
Ch 2 : Seagate ST32000542AS [1863 GB]
1858 GB allocated
Ch 3 : Seagate ST32000542AS [1863 GB]
1858 GB allocated
LOG:
Fri Nov 16 11:56:19 PST 2012 Volume expansion or migration started. Do not interrupt the system during this time. When finished, email notification will be sent to the alert contact list.
Fri Nov 16 11:55:02 PST 2012 New disk detected. If multiple disks have been added, they will be processed one at a time. Please do not remove any added disk(s) during this time. [Disk 3]
I'd like to admit that I'm on RAIDiator 4.2.19, which is not the latest. I'm afraid to upgrade because we're using Replicate on this NAS & it's working perfectly.
Additionally, I cannot find any setting in Frontview for snapshots - it absolutely does not exist.
Thank you guys for the help.
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