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ReadyNAS 628 expansion not starting
ReadyNAS 628x running firmware 6.10.8 in RAID6 NAS has operated flawlessly for many years with eight (8) 14TB drives. A recent drive failure led me upgrade to: Four (4) 14TB drives F...
Some good if mysterious news! Since I was going to have to reformat the system to get more space, I completed upgrading from 14TB drives to 24TB drives. I added the 24TB drives (hot) one at a time letting the ReadyNAS return to redundant status after each drive was added. Adding each new drive took a couple days.
I added the eighth 24TB drive this weekend. Imagine my surprise this morning when I saw the message that it had resynced. FrontView reports that the data volume is now 130.94TB. Apparently, encrypted vertical expansion can occur but only when all drives have been upgraded to a larger size.
For what it's worth, my ReadyNAS 628 is on firmware 6.10.8.
Or consider if you really need encryption at all. Since you need the USB key to boot, most users leave it in the unit or near by, pretty much defeating the usefulness of encryption if the unit is stolen since the thief will also get the key. If you are encrypting so data on a removed drive isn't recoverable, you can simply plan to erase the drive. If the drive has failed and can't be erased, consider whether you have any data on it that's so prized that somebody would go through the effort of trying and recover it from a single non-working drive from a RAID.
And one more thing: There is no recovery software available to recover an encrypted ReadyNAS volume. If your NAS dies, the only recovery is by buying a replacement or, perhaps, using a ReadyNAS virtual machine (I've done recovery on a VM, but never used encryption on the VM for anything).
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