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ReadyNAS 102 With X-RAID Not Expanding Storage, Device Becomes Unreachable
Hi. I've been using a ReadyNAS 102 for about 9 months now. I had a 1.5TB WD hard disk in bay 1 and a 1.0TB WD disk in bay 2. Everything was working great. I decided I would upgrade both disks to ...
The process you outline (hot-swap one drive at a time) is the right one. I'm don't know why it isn't working for you. It will take several hours to resync, though normally the UI would be available for most of that time (just slow).
Do you have other apps running (antivirus, etc) that could be adding to the CPU load?
Hi Stephen. Thanks for the response.
No, I don't have anti-virus running, but I do run a Plex server and the Logitch Media Server on the ReadyNAS. Nothing is / was streaming, though.
Well you could still try turning off the apps and seeing if that helps.
Which firmware are you running?
Ok. Yeah, it can't hurt to try that. I'm backing the device up right now, but will try that tomorrow.
The firmware is 6.2.5 -- the admin page says I have the latest for my device.
You could send your logs in (see the Sending Logs link in my sig).
I tried the suggestion to shut down the apps and try the process above again. Same result (ReadyNAS became unreachable / unresponsive).
I'm going to close this out. I backed up everything earlier today to an external disk outside the NAS, then installed the new drives in the NAS. That worked fine. Now I just need to restore the data to the higher-capacity NAS drives.
Thanks for your help.
Hi Guys
Although this problem is already solved it has thrown up a query in my mind, which is:
Dwitkin said to increase his disk capacity on his RN102 he could: (a) remove either of the two existing disks.
Well, I always thought that with a two disk NAS, facing the front of the machine, you had to remove and replace the right hand disk first then, after the new disk has been recognised and synced, replace the left hand disk.
In other words, I did not believe that removing "either disk" was an option.
However, I am going from my own understanding of using my two RN Duo V2s.
UK Bob
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