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Question on Expansion
I guess I'm somewhat confused on expansion or may be I did something wrong.
I have a Pro 6 unit that had 5 500GB disks in it setup in an X-RAID2 configuration, single redundancy. So I had around 1TB of usable space.
I put 3 new 1TB drives into the bottom 3 available drive bays. It read each drive and expanded the volume, but it only allocated 500GB of each 1TB drive.
I thought the whole point of X-RAID was that you could add different size drives to get more space? I now only have about 2.5TB.
Did I do something wrong here? What did I miss? Is there any way to get it to use the rest of the unused capacity on each drive?
Thanks.
Matt
I have a Pro 6 unit that had 5 500GB disks in it setup in an X-RAID2 configuration, single redundancy. So I had around 1TB of usable space.
I put 3 new 1TB drives into the bottom 3 available drive bays. It read each drive and expanded the volume, but it only allocated 500GB of each 1TB drive.
I thought the whole point of X-RAID was that you could add different size drives to get more space? I now only have about 2.5TB.
Did I do something wrong here? What did I miss? Is there any way to get it to use the rest of the unused capacity on each drive?
Thanks.
Matt
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- Try a reboot, wait 5-10 minutes and if expansion hasn't started reboot once more.
Looking at the X-RAID Volume Size Calculator (see link in my sig) it looks like it's down the horizontal expansion (putting a drive in an empty drive bay resulting in 500GB being added to the volume capacity) but not the vertical expansion yet. - That was it. I only rebooted one time. After I saw your post I went and looked in the log and sure enough, it said volume expansion will begin on next reboot (3 times it listed that). I rebooted it and it is expanding now. I assume it is safe to use while it is expanding?
Thanks!
Matt - You can use it. Transfers would be slower than usual, of course during the expansion.
Yes that's what you'd expect.
The unit should have shipped with the screws you need in a small zip lock bag (this could be found in various places e.g. with documentation, taped to a drive tray etc.) Contact support and they should be able to send you some. In the meantime you could use just a couple of screws per tray. - Thanks. After fully reading your original post I used your size calculator and deleted my post (guess not in time for you to not see it). That's a helpful tool. Thanks for creating it!
Yeah, this was at a customer site so I gave them the screws from my ReadyNAS Pro 6 since mine is not fully populated, they had no idea where theres went off to!
Matt - It's not my tool but I agree that it's very good.
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