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Max disk size for NVX
Hello All, I just discovered that one of my disks crapped out (weird that it didn't email me since my alerts are functioning properly) in my NVX. I'm not sure if there are two versions of this uni...
Your array is currently not redundant, correct?
So step 1 would be to replace the dead drive. Hot swap (or insertion) is the recommended way. After resync you would have redundancy, but no more space.
After resync, I'd hot-swap the other 1 TB drive. That should resync and expand, giving you about 4 TB of total space. You could try hot-swapping one of the 500GB drives, though it isn't completely clear to me how well xraid-2 handles 3 different sizes. So personally I'd avoid that, and not worry about the extra 500 gb.
So step 1 would be to replace the dead drive. Hot swap (or insertion) is the recommended way. After resync you would have redundancy, but no more space.
After resync, I'd hot-swap the other 1 TB drive. That should resync and expand, giving you about 4 TB of total space. You could try hot-swapping one of the 500GB drives, though it isn't completely clear to me how well xraid-2 handles 3 different sizes. So personally I'd avoid that, and not worry about the extra 500 gb.
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