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AKLGUY
Aug 20, 2021Apprentice
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 ...
- Aug 28, 2021
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.
AKLGUY
Aug 25, 2021Apprentice
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
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