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readynas 3100
Hi, I have a readynas 3100, and it has only 3TB Memory. Now I bought 4, 4TB hard drives, I would like to replace these with the old 1TB hard drives with hot swap. Is there any special way to do ...
what firmware are you running?
There is an 8 TB expansion limit over the life of the volume. You will exceed that threshold in this case (you are expanding by 9 TB in this upgrade, and you may have expanded sometime in the past).
The recommended path is to back up the data, power down, replace all drives, then power up. The NAS will do a factory install on the new drives. From there, you rebuild the configuration (reinstall add-ons, restore the config files, then restore the data). The order matters - you need to reinstall add-ons before restoring the config files.
There is an 8 TB expansion limit over the life of the volume. You will exceed that threshold in this case (you are expanding by 9 TB in this upgrade, and you may have expanded sometime in the past).
The recommended path is to back up the data, power down, replace all drives, then power up. The NAS will do a factory install on the new drives. From there, you rebuild the configuration (reinstall add-ons, restore the config files, then restore the data). The order matters - you need to reinstall add-ons before restoring the config files.
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