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tony359
Aug 16, 2018Apprentice
OS6 horizontal expansion - adding a larger drive
apologies if this has been discussed before, I cannot find a definite answer.
I am on OS4 on my RN Pro6 and I am planning of migrating to OS6. I currently have 3x4TB HDDs. I am thinking of expandin...
- Aug 16, 2018
Yes, even when creating a new volume it will create the RAID layer with 4x4TB and see that there's only one higher capacity disk so there's not room to vertically expand yet. If you had two 6TB disks installed when creating the volume it would do the vertical expansion after creating the 4x4TB layer.
tony359
Aug 16, 2018Apprentice
thanks mdgm as usual - and nice hearing from you again!
All pretty much clear. Just wanted to double check that I am not expanding, I'm reinstalling (obviously!) on single redundancy. Can you confirm the same process will apply - hence 4+4+4+6 will give me 4+4+4 + 4(redundancy) for now?
Cheers!
mdgm-ntgr
Aug 16, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Yes, even when creating a new volume it will create the RAID layer with 4x4TB and see that there's only one higher capacity disk so there's not room to vertically expand yet. If you had two 6TB disks installed when creating the volume it would do the vertical expansion after creating the 4x4TB layer.
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