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Failed Hard Drive Upgrade
Hi Team.
I have an RN316 slowly built it up to have 6x 3TB Drives. (started with 3)
Then I have slowly replaced the 3TB drives with 8TB Drives (one at a time)
For a while I was running fine on 3x 8TB and 3x 8TB
But I need some more so I replaced the 3TB in bay 4 with an 8TB all of a sudden I lost Free space, the Nas went read only
I done a restart and all the bays went Red and it said I had no data left on the drive and all the attempts to get into the NAS failed, said my password was wrong and I was getting locked out. I factory reset my NAS and tryng a new set up and it is still saying I only have 13.62 TB of Free Space (while it is in resyncing)
I am running the latest Firmware
and having Raid 5 with X-Raid
Any suggestions I can try?
AKLGUY wrote:
Failed to expand volume with disk Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 from Channel 5. Volume requires drive capacity to be the same size or larger before volume expansion can begin.
Does the System to really want me to replace the last 2 3TB bays with 8TB I wonder?
Note it was telling you it can't expand the volume (which is true). Though it is a confusing message to get on a disk replacement.
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AKLGUY wrote:
it is still saying I only have 13.62 TB of Free Space (while it is in resyncing)
Any suggestions I can try?
Just wait for it.
Your volume will have two RAID groups - 6x3TB RAID-5, and then a 4x5TB RAID-5 group to cover the "extra" space on the 8 TB drives. These are concatenated together to make a single volume.
The system is creating the 6x3TB group now - that has a 15 TB (~13.6 TiB) capacity. When that is synced, it will start on the second group, and you'll see the size increase to the full 30 TB (~27.2 TiB) capacity.
I have finished the Resync, and started to put my content back but when I now look at the NAS Bay 4 is Red (steady) It is still showing as ok here. I am doing a disc check now but the numbers are correct arent they for what I should have (raid 5 X-Raid) The only difference is the 8TB in by for is a WD Red Plus (7200 RPM) while the others are 8TB Red at 5400
- Thanks but there is a red light on the NAS drive bay(sorry I wasn’t clear above)
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