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AKLGUY
Apprentice
Aug 20, 2021
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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 ...
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    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.

     

     

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