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VolkmanT
Aspirant
Sep 26, 2016

My ReadyNas 3200 12 bay drive increast from 6 2t drives to 12 25TE29Y80002a

Hello all ,

 

I'm hoping you can help ! We have a ReadyNas 3200 that we are increasing the storage from 6 2 t drives to the full 12 . The drives appear to have went into the volume find but the storage isn't increasing . Thoughts

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User

    This is 4.2.x firmware?  Also are you running XRAID?

     

      • StephenB's avatar
        StephenB
        Guru - Experienced User

        VolkmanT wrote:

        Raid 6 -    4.2.2.1


        You are a bit behind - the current firmware is 4.2.30.

         

        There are two limits to growth in OS 4.2.x.  One is that a volume can't expand over 16 TiB, a second is that a volume can't grow by more than 8 TiB over its lifetime.

         

        Your change would take the volume from 8 TB to 20 TB.  That violates both rules for sure.  I'm not sure why you haven't seen any expansion - it should have grown some.

         

        But it wouldn't have worked anyway - you unfortunately need to change to flexraid and create 2 volumes.  That requires a factory reset, rebuilding the NAS, creating the volumes, and then restoring data from backup.

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