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ready nas ultra 6 Drive expansion with 6tb drives
Hi My Pioneer Pro 6 has been running fine with 6 * 2TB drives in however when I fitted 6 * 4TB WD Reds (on the approved list) it will not expand past 8TB in Raid 5. have firmware 4.2.15 I hav...
looks like that is solving the problem.... :-)
Thanks
the 4.2.31 firmware only partially worked. It seems to be able to see all 3726 GB of each disk when I look at the "Status->Health" but the volume (X-RAID2) is only 8324GB.... it won't expand past the size it was with 6*2TB disks. any suggestions?
What process did you use? It should be something like:
- Update to 4.2.31
- power down
- install 6x6TB
- power up, using boot menu to do factory reset
Given where you are, you should probably try the factory default facility in Frontview (system->update, choose the "factory default" tab, then click "perform factory default").
The factory rest fromthe System->Update worked this time. I think it has to do a factory reset and then when a second one is done via that menu it changed the disk form alocating 167*GB (the same as the 6 by 2TB HDD I had inthere) to 3726GB (but still only giving 8TB of space) then on the next reset it expanded it to 18TB of usable space. This is with firmware 4.2.31 in the Pioneer Pro 6.
I am now a happy bunny and will sopend the next couple of days moving all the 6Tb of files thatr were onthe system back on to it.
thansk for evryone's help.
Since you already have to restore your data, this is a good time for you to consider moving to OS6.x. It uses a much newer Linux distro, plus lacks many of the the expansion restrictions of OS 4.x.
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