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stareck
Jan 08, 2015Aspirant
Expansion and encryption on RN104
Hello, I have the RN104 (firmware 6.2.2) My drives are: 1x1TB Western Digital Red - WD10EFRX 2x4TB Western Digital Red - WD40EFRX. First I created a X-RAID volume with encryption on 1TB disk. ...
StephenB
Jan 08, 2015Guru - Experienced User
My volumes are not encrypted, and I honestly don't know if there is lower limit. It seems unlikely though. The 16 TB ceiling is a restriction due to the 32 bit architecture of the RN102 arm processor. There's no technical reason I can see why there would be a smaller limitation for encryption.
stareck wrote: I'll wait...
By the way, can you confirm that encryption has no limitation to expansion?
Could I have only one encrypted volume up to 16TB?
Thanks
So my guess is that you have run into a simple expansion failure - the upper RAID-1 layer across your two 4 TB drives either hasn't been been created, or the file system hasn't been adjusted to use it. The logs would give more information (partition.log and volume.log in particular).
If you purchased within the last 90 days, support for this issue should still be free (assuming your disks are on the HCL). mdgm might be willing to take a closer look (though he's just one guy, and can't do everything).
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