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Aspirant

Apr 26, 2017

Solved

Expand Raid 5 to use the spare as space.

I have a ReadyNas 2120 v2 with 4 - 4TB disks. I am presently using the 4th disk as hot spare. When I click on the spare disk in the volume manager it offers to let me add parity to this disk. I assum...

StephenB
May 01, 2017
Mike10 wrote:

Ok this is where it is at after clicking yes.

Looks like it is adding the 4th disk then. Just let it finish, it should then expand.

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Apr 26, 2017

Add parity would mean to convert your volume from RAID-5 to RAID-6. That wouldn't lead to volume expansion.

Aspirant

Apr 26, 2017

Is there any way to start using the spare disk to expand the capacity of the raid without having my data overwritten?

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