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Adding 4TB - total storage volume not increased
Hi,
We have a Readynas nv+ v2 used for backing up to. It has 4x2TB hdd’s. The NAS has run out of space and I am in process of adding 2 new 4TB drives.
I am adding one drive at the time and have ...
jh75 wrote:
I am adding one drive at the time and have only added 1 drives so far. After adding 1x 4TB drive the storage ‘size’ has not increased – it seems that only 2TB of the new drive is used.
This is normal. The system can't use the full drive space without sacrificing RAID redundancy.
When you add the second disk there will be a second resync and the volume will expand by 2 TB. You likely will be prompted to reboot the NAS half-way through that resync
jh75 wrote:
I am adding one drive at the time and have only added 1 drives so far. After adding 1x 4TB drive the storage ‘size’ has not increased – it seems that only 2TB of the new drive is used.
This is normal. The system can't use the full drive space without sacrificing RAID redundancy.
When you add the second disk there will be a second resync and the volume will expand by 2 TB. You likely will be prompted to reboot the NAS half-way through that resync
Thanks,
When adding the next 4TB drive it expanded across as expected.
j
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