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DavidL82
Dec 31, 2017Aspirant
Adding new 4TB disk in JBOD
Hi there, I have 2 WD 4TB disks. If I create a JBOD volume with one, the option to 'Expand' is greyed out on the other. I can add two volumes, I can add spanning RAID0, however I cannot create a sp...
DavidL82
Dec 31, 2017Aspirant
Nevermind, resolved 5 minutes after posting.
'Expand' was unavailable, but I did not think to click 'Add group, which grouped the disks into a single JBOD volume.
Marc_V
Jan 01, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi DavidL82
JBOD is available only on volumes consisting of a single hard disk, so expanding JBOD is not possible.
JBOD can be concatenated or spanned through forming a single logical volume or LUN. More information here.
Thank you for sharing your resolution and/or workaround. We appreciate your contribution to the community.
Feel free to post any suggestions, questions, recommendations or anything about your NAS that you think needs attention or will help others.
Regards
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