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Having a dense moment here.....
I have a RN2120 (v6.9.3) with 4 x 1TB drives (RAID5) in and it it reaching capacity.
I have taken delivery of 4 x 4TB drives that have been previously used in a ReadyNAS.
The data on the 4TB driv...
Thank you StephenB.
I happen to know where the 4TB drives came from and they are good drives, they were replaced with 10TB drives in a 716X.
I am following your instructions in the first full paragraph, and so far spot on. A second data volume appeared, I destroyed it, then am formatting it and re-syncing, estimating 8Hrs.
I was struggling to find the right information in the manual under "Previously Formatted Disks". It tells you that you must re-format them, but does not tell you how to do this if you are expanding your system, just how to do it on a new system, or how to migrate the data.
The closest to what I'm doing is: "If you try to use previously formatted disks in a system that already contains usable disks, the system does not reformat or use the previously formatted disks. Any data on the previously formatted disks remains intact."
So you have very kindly provided the missing link!
OK, where we are at.
1st disk changed all appears to have changed over OK - See image Capture1
Second disc change appears to have changed over OK - But new space not being seen by the OS, so ave rebooted as per your instruction. Although the system does get shutdown automatically at 21:00 and restarted at 08:00 anyway.
See image Capture2.
System now looks like Capture3.
What do you advise?
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