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Changing from Flex-RAID to X-RAID
I was casually looking at the volumes tab of my ReadyNAS admin page. And so I noticed that the X-RAID button was not lit. I specifically recall getting a ReadyNAS specifically for X-RAID capabilitie...
Your logs show a 4x2TB RAID-5 layer and a 3x2TB RAID-5 layer. Replace the 3TB disk with a 4TB disk and you should get some more expansion.
lrizos wrote:
Can anyone advise me how do I go back so the memory can increase.
AFAIK, The only way to do that is to destroy the volume and recreate it. That will destroy your shares, so you would need to recreate them and restore the data from backup. You would also need to re-install any apps.
Expansion is still possible with FlexRAID, but more complicated.
At some point, Netgear made it impossible to go from FlexRAID back to XRAID if you have a vertically expanded volume. IMHO, this makes no sense, as I know of no FlexRAID expansion that's not XRAID compatible unless you've done so outside the GUI via SSH. But it is what it is, and I know of no work-around. I have documented how to do XRAID-like expansion of a FlexRAID volume from SSH: How-to-do-incremental-vertical-expansion-in-FlexRAID-mode.
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