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ReadyNas 3200 upgarde 1TB Hard drive to 2TB Hard drives
Hello, I have a ReadyNas 3200 with 12 1TB Hard Drives populated. I went and put a 2TB Hard drive in bay 12, waited for it to show green on the readynas webpage under volumes, then populated bay 1...
I'm guessing you're using raid?
If so, when you put a larger drive into the unit (and it's using xraid) it will add it but only add the usable space (this is because with raid 5 or raid 6 you can only use the available space of your smallest drive.)
To change this you'd need to backup all of your data, install a few 2TB drives and then you'd be able to continually add hard drives (although I believe if you're running on the 4.x software you can only expand a volume 16TB's so it's best to start off with as many 2TB drives as possible... this might not be true now given your model but I know it was the case for a long time.)
The reason it didn't populate bay 11 is perhaps it needed to be restarted to start the process of adding that drive to the array.
Hello ifix,
Yes I am using X-Raid 2;
I am using version 4.2.27
We purchased a company and inherited this device. I want to use this as our main local file server, but for now the data on it is not important to us. I am currently just testing the device so I can get comfortable with it before moving all corporate data there.
Currently it shows 9TB usable; I saw the x-raid 2 animation and it says you can just add drives and more storage will be made available. There isn't a way for this device to just realize there are now (2) 2TB hard drives in place of 2 1TB Hard drives and just expand the total space? I was hoping to as disks fail or as storage needs grow just replace the 1TB drives in there for 2TB. Thats what turned me on to this device to begin with.
Is there not a way for me to simply dynamically increase capacity?
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