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NV+ v2 expansion limits
Hello All,
I have been round and round the forum, but seem to be going round and round in circles! I can't search for "NV+" or "v2" as they are too common, but I want to make sure that I get an answer that is relevant to my hardware.
I have an NV+ v2 (very happy) that I initially installed with 2 x 1TB Seagate (on HCL) drives X-RAID2. It now has 4 x 1TB drives, RAIDiator 5.3.11, but it is getting full. Two questions:
1. Am I affected by the "cannot expand more than 8TB" rule so that the max storage would be 9TB (4 x 3TB with 9TB storage and one 3TB drive redundancy?) I couldn't put 4 x 4TB drives in?
2. Either way, I just pull out one 1TB drive (after backing up all my data first!), with the NV+ v2 on, remove it from it's caddy, wait 10 seconds, put a 3TB drive in the caddy and re-insert, waiting for the sync to complete and then do the same with the other drives. Re-boot NV+ v2 after all of this is completed and I have tripled my storage capacity?
May not be the place to say it, but it is an awesome machine. It stores all our family photos & movies, streams music to Sonos, movies to Apple TV, and Time Machines the three Macs in the house, oh, and backs up to the cloud. Runs off a UPS, shutdowns gracefully. Love it.
Many thanks in advance for any help,
gimbers
I have been round and round the forum, but seem to be going round and round in circles! I can't search for "NV+" or "v2" as they are too common, but I want to make sure that I get an answer that is relevant to my hardware.
I have an NV+ v2 (very happy) that I initially installed with 2 x 1TB Seagate (on HCL) drives X-RAID2. It now has 4 x 1TB drives, RAIDiator 5.3.11, but it is getting full. Two questions:
1. Am I affected by the "cannot expand more than 8TB" rule so that the max storage would be 9TB (4 x 3TB with 9TB storage and one 3TB drive redundancy?) I couldn't put 4 x 4TB drives in?
2. Either way, I just pull out one 1TB drive (after backing up all my data first!), with the NV+ v2 on, remove it from it's caddy, wait 10 seconds, put a 3TB drive in the caddy and re-insert, waiting for the sync to complete and then do the same with the other drives. Re-boot NV+ v2 after all of this is completed and I have tripled my storage capacity?
May not be the place to say it, but it is an awesome machine. It stores all our family photos & movies, streams music to Sonos, movies to Apple TV, and Time Machines the three Macs in the house, oh, and backs up to the cloud. Runs off a UPS, shutdowns gracefully. Love it.
Many thanks in advance for any help,
gimbers
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- Hi Gimbers,
You can get the following info on the link below:
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... n-readynas - Hi Nhellie,
Thanks for the quick reply. I have already read that, but, and sorry if I am being stupid, I can't see any mention of NV+ v2, ARM or RAIDiator 5.3.11, so I am unsure of which bit allies to me, hence the post.
Thanks,
gimbers
Correct. The limits are actually TiB, but that doesn't change the result. 1 TiB is 1024*1024*1024*1024 bytes. 1 TB is 1000*1000*1000*1000 bytes.gimbers wrote: 1. Am I affected by the "cannot expand more than 8TB" rule so that the max storage would be 9TB (4 x 3TB with 9TB storage and one 3TB drive redundancy?) I couldn't put 4 x 4TB drives in?
Also basically correct. Presently you have 3 TB (~2.72 TiB).gimbers wrote: 2. Either way, I just pull out one 1TB drive (after backing up all my data first!), with the NV+ v2 on, remove it from it's caddy, wait 10 seconds, put a 3TB drive in the caddy and re-insert, waiting for the sync to complete and then do the same with the other drives. Re-boot NV+ v2 after all of this is completed and I have tripled my storage capacity?
When you insert the 2nd 3 TB drive you will end up with 5 TB (~4.55 TiB). Likely you will need to reboot after the second drive syncs to get the expansion (not waiting until disk 4 resyncs).
Then insert the 3rd drive (it will expand to 7 TB or ~6.36 TiB), and the fourth (ending up at 9 TB or ~8.19 TiB)
I don't have a v2, but the sync will likely take more than 12 hours, so inserting one a day is reasonable.
The benefit of the hot-insert method is that your data is accessible throughout the process. The factory reset with 4x3TB installed would be faster. But it would take the NAS offline for a day or so, and would require you to set up the NAS again and restore your data from backup. The reset also would re-set your growth limit, so you could expand to 16 TiB in the future.- I'm doing this exact same expansion on a ReadyNAS NV+ V2.
It is running RAIDiator 5.3.11
I started with 4 2TiB WD Green WD20EARX drives and I am now replacing them, one at a time, with WD 3TiB Red WD30EFRX drives.
I originally bought these 4 drives for my ReadyNAS NV+ (V1) running RAIDiator 4.1.14, since it has also reach capacity and one of the drives has begun to mark sectors as bad.
After I finish with the NV+ V2, I intend to take those WD 2TiB drives and put them into the NV+ V1 system
Both systems have been very stable, with only the V1 needing a new power supply 2 years ago after being in service for 6 years. That's when I got the NV+ V2 to replace it and then I decided to repair it.
BR,
Jerald
Just a small correction - Manufactures use TB units (1 000 000 000 000 bytes), not TiB (1 099 511 627 776 bytes). For example, the WD20EARX are 2 TB (or 1.8 TiB).jerlad wrote: ...I started with 4 2TiB WD Green WD20EARX drives and I am now replacing them, one at a time, with WD 3TiB Red WD30EFRX drives... - Thanks all for your replies. Not withstanding the TB/TiB distinction, I have an unsupported 4TB drive lying around, so will back up to that (got under 3TB of data on 4x1TB RAID array) and then factory reset with either 3 or 4TB drives. Data not super-critical, so I can survive the 24/48 hour downtime. Once again, thanks.
Gimbers
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