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New larger disks coming up short!
I have a ReadyNAS NV+ V2 [X-RAID], 256MB, which was running 4 X 320G HDD, reported at 294G each. It was chugging away for about 8 months:
I got hold of 4 x 1T WD green drives for an upgrade. Believe it or not, I read the manual. It said, hotplug one drive at a time and the magic will happen. I checked a few forums and sure enough, lots of folks are saying hotplug replace one drive at a time, and the magic will happen.
I hotplug replaced one drive with one of the WD 1Ts. The magice started. A day or so later finally there was a message the the new drive had been re synchronized, resynchronized and now the array was full redundant. Total capacity remained at 294G per drive, although the WD was shown at 931G. I understand that.
I repeated the exercise for the other drives, one at a time, and today I got the end of the process. Not bad, only four days....
Unfortunately, the array did not resize:
- RAID Disks:
Ch 1 : WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1 [931 GB] 294 GB allocated
Ch 2 : WDC WD10EAVS-00D7B1 [931 GB] 294 GB allocated
Ch 3 : WDC WD10EAVS-32D7B1 [931 GB] 294 GB allocated
Ch 4 : WDC WD10EAVS-00D7B1 [931 GB] 294 GB allocated
What have I missed?
OK, I see now that the unit needs to be rebooted several times. Then it starts resyncing and expansion.
Another few days <sigh>
It would have been simpler and much much quicker to start anew..
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OK, I see now that the unit needs to be rebooted several times. Then it starts resyncing and expansion.
Another few days <sigh>
It would have been simpler and much much quicker to start anew..
yea this process is slow
that is why i keep backup and if need be i reformat the disks with new raid level and then restore
Frederico wrote:
It would have been simpler and much much quicker to start anew..
It often is, especially with an NV+ v1, which doesn't support mixed disk sizes.
It shouldn't have taken 4 days to resync the four new disks though - how much user activity was there?
FWIW I probably would have used WD10EFRX (actually I'd have gone to WD20EFRX), as I favor NAS-purposed drives over green. That said, I've had good results with the WD20EARS in my own NV+, those are the original disks I installed about 6 years ago.
StephenB wrote:FWIW I probably would have used WD10EFRX (actually I'd have gone to WD20EFRX), as I favor NAS-purposed drives over green. That said, I've had good results with the WD20EARS in my own NV+, those are the original disks I installed about 6 years ago.
The drives, unused in their original packaging, had been laying around in an IT Dept. store. They are were bought four years ago, so the price was right. They'll do for ad hoc storage and backups. In any case, if I had to pay retail I would have opted for 2Ts.
That said, my main NAS, an HP Proliant NL-40, has been thundering away on 4 X 2T stock standard Seagate drives for four years now, 24/7. Everyone's milage seems to differ when it comes to HDD. Personally I think I've been fortunate.
Brother i brought netgear n300 wireless dsl modem router and i have a broadband connection so help me out for wan setup plez bro i need your help
Hello james88,
You are in ReadyNAS storage board, please create new topic in the appropriate board for your N300 modem router.
Regards,
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