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New disk in NV+ v2 and 'Volume expansion failed'
Good evening, I'd like to ask the members/experts about an expansion problem I'm having. I've done a search and suspect it's the usual 8TB volume expansion problem that seems to occur now and agai...
Yes. There are optional destructive tests, but there are clear warnings / confirmations so they are easily avoided.
krislee wrote: To check the drives, is it as simple as turn the NAS off, remove each disk, connect to a spare SATA port on a PC, run the test and replace in same bay on the NAS?
I thought I should provide an update on this.
In the end all disks checked out fine so there was no obvious reason for the expansion failure. I bought another 4TB disk and reset the NAS with 3x 4TB disks, which took a couple of attempts and a few days to complete. I then re-configured the NAS and copied all the data back from my backups, which took another three or four days...
Now all sorted with a 7.2TB usable space and room for one more disk in the future.
Thanks for the help,
Kris.
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