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Bubba-Ho-Tep
Oct 17, 2020Aspirant
Can't Disable "Active Snapshot" When Trying to Expand Volume on ReadyNas Ultra 2
I currently have two 2-TB drives installed in my ReadyNas Ultra 2 Plus. Volumes are set to RAID Level X-RAID2. I am almost out of space so I decided to upgrade using 2 6-TB Seagate Ironwolf driv...
StephenB
Oct 17, 2020Guru - Experienced User
The snapshot is on the disks (and was propagated to the new drives). So that won't help.
One alternative is to back up the data, do a factory reset, rebuild the NAS, and restore the files. If you do go this route, you should consider converting the NAS to run OS-6 while you are at it.
Bubba-Ho-Tep
Oct 18, 2020Aspirant
StephenB wrote:The snapshot is on the disks (and was propagated to the new drives). So that won't help.
One alternative is to back up the data, do a factory reset, rebuild the NAS, and restore the files. If you do go this route, you should consider converting the NAS to run OS-6 while you are at it.
I think this is the route I'll take. Does the Ultra 2 Plus do well with OS-6?
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