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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 28, 2021Apprentice
Just finished testing the old bay 4 drive and it passed so Zeroed the data.
Placed it in Bay 5 (which Readynas said had failed) Both old 4 and the bay 5 drives were 3TB Red Drives.
(Previous) Bay 5- WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Old Bay 4 now in Bay 5 WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
This is the error message I got right before it said it was starting the resync
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?
StephenB
Aug 28, 2021Guru - Experienced User
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.
- AKLGUYAug 28, 2021Apprentice
The new bay 3TB (old one from bay 4) has gone in to bay 5 and the Resync has been completed still have a red iight on bay 4 (on the nas) still green on the OS, doing another disk check.
- AKLGUYAug 29, 2021Apprentice
Thank you for your help StephenB.
A disc check on the NAS passed once I replaced the drive with bad sectos (although the light in the bay was still red)
I done a restart. Now for what ever reason I can not access the NAS via SMB w10 or Mac OS. It is not showing up on Network Locations, on both. I can still access it via a web browser.
And it has appeared bia AFP on my Mac
But if I go to \\IPADDRESS\ I get the 0x80004005 error.
I can ping it as well
I ahve checked the SMB settings I ahve not changed anything there.
SMB Transport Encryption is set to Enabled
Strict Sync is on
When I do the Windows Diagnotics it is saying the NAS is refusing SMB connections
- StephenBAug 29, 2021Guru - Experienced User
What status is RAIDar giving you?
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