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btaroli
Dec 01, 2016Prodigy
Planning Ahead for Capacity Upgrade
Well, the ol' 4TB based volume in my 516 is down below 3TB free space. FWIW, this somehow got created as a RAID-5 under X-RAID2, but with 4TB disks it wasn't so bad. After some thought and looking at...
- Dec 01, 2016
The volume will only expand when redundant space can be added. So if you have one 12TB disk after the RAID-6 volume is rebuilt you will still have dual-redundancy.
After you've created the RAID-6 volume you can re-enable X-RAID.
In fact depending what disks are installed, with a RAID-5 volume with three or more disks you could disable X-RAID and designate it so that when the next empty slot is filled it is used to add parity (i.e. convert to RAID-6). This conversion does take a long time though.
btaroli
Dec 04, 2016Prodigy
ticket 27750873 submitted
- btaroliDec 04, 2016Prodigy
Replaced by ticket 27750891, since I goofed and entered the wrong email in the first one. Fun.
- mdgm-ntgrDec 04, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
This appears to be a minor issue that in some rare cases may be run into when migrating disks from one chassis to another.
Edit: Your system looks fixed now.
- btaroliDec 04, 2016Prodigy
Yes, it seems so. :) A bit of a scare! Hadn't see this sort of thing, as I've never moved disks between boxes before. Appreciate your help!
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