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HDD Replacement - Expected Rebuild Time
Hi, I have a Netgear Utlra 6 with 5x2TB drives and 1x3TB drive. I removed one of my 2TB drives and then replaced it with a brand new 3TB drive. The rebuild has started but has been going for 3 days...
I already had 3TB installed amongst my 5 other 2TB drives, but obviously couldn't make use of that extra 1TB as you indicated. But now that I have replaced one of the 2TB with a 3TB, the extra 1TB space should become available. I now have 2 x 3TB and 4 x 2TB.
However, the sync just finished but I received the following message:
"Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot."
I rebooted the device and then received this message:
"Volume expansion failed"
That doesn't seem good. All the drives are green and working correctly, however with 2 x 3TB and 4 x 2 TB drives, shouldn't I be expecting about 10 TB of total usable space (using 1 disk redundency), or is my bad maths getting the better of me? FV is telling me I only have 9TB available.
However, the sync just finished but I received the following message:
"Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot."
I rebooted the device and then received this message:
"Volume expansion failed"
That doesn't seem good. All the drives are green and working correctly, however with 2 x 3TB and 4 x 2 TB drives, shouldn't I be expecting about 10 TB of total usable space (using 1 disk redundency), or is my bad maths getting the better of me? FV is telling me I only have 9TB available.
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