Expanding NV+

If this is an older NV+ that was shipped before RAIDiator 4.1.x came out, and was later upgraded to the newer version, but never was factory defaulted on 4.1.x, then your system may be still using 4k blocks rather than 16k blocks which are necessary for expansion beyond 2GB. Go into Frontview, then status and then Logs. In the upper right you should have a button labeled download all logs. Clicking on that will download a zipped file of all logs (not the alerts you see on screen). Open the zipped file and go down to the volume.log and scan down looking for block size. If it is 4096, then yes you will have to backup and do a factory default to get the expansion. If it is 16,384 it is something else. Backing up all the data and performing a factory default will still cure a lot of ills.

If you have removed the older drives one at a time and replaced them with the larger drive the old drives are no longer a viable array. Only the first drive is as it was when it was first removed and every drive after that was sychronized with at least one of the larger drives. They can however, have the partitions removed with Windows disk management and reformatted to serve as drives onto which you can copy your data for backup purposes.