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dalbright
Jun 10, 2017Aspirant
First expansion, not the space I expected
Been with this ReadyNAS fro about 4 years, first time posting... I performed my first Xraid expansion yesterday, swapping a 2TB drive with a 4TB drive, however, my expanded RAID is not fully utili...
- Jun 11, 2017
You'll need to replace another disk with a 4TB one to get further vertical expansion.
Note that expansion is limited to 8TB over the life of the volume and you cannot expand past 16TB.
StephenB
Jun 11, 2017Guru - Experienced User
mdgm wrote:
You'll need to replace another disk with a 4TB one to get further vertical expansion.
Correct. The capacity rule for single redundancy is pretty simple - sum the disks and subtract the largest.
In addition to the two volume size constraints mdgm-ntgr mentioned, the new disks need to be at least as large as the largest already installed.
dalbright
Jun 11, 2017Aspirant
Ok, thanks everyone. I have another 4fb standing by, but didn't want to add it if the space was going to be wasted. Appreciate the feedback!
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