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ReadyNas 426 - Behaviour when upgrading drives
Hi, I'm currently in the process of upgrading 6 10TB Toshiba N300 drives to 6 18TB Toshiba MG09 drives. The first one I replaced took around 20 hours to 'Resync Volume', as expected. The ...
carlpea wrote:
This is the info I was referring to:
https://kb.netgear.com/21415/How-do-I-expand-an-existing-X-RAID-volume-with-larger-disks
Replace one disk at a time with a larger disk, letting it finish initializing and syncing after each replacement (this process can take several hours depending on disk capacity, but you can continue access to the ReadyNAS), and after the last disk has been replaced, reboot the ReadyNAS. The expansion will occur at boot time.
That looks like it applies to 4.1.x firmware - if so it's very old. XRAID in all newer NAS (4.2, 5.3, 6.x) supports unequal-size disks.
Marc_V , JeraldM: Can you request that this article be corrected (or perhaps deleted).
Yes, I've backed up the important data.
I'm also running the full 24 hour self test on each new drive before adding it to the ReadyNas.
This is the info I was referring to:
https://kb.netgear.com/21415/How-do-I-expand-an-existing-X-RAID-volume-with-larger-disks
Replace one disk at a time with a larger disk, letting it finish initializing and syncing after each replacement (this process can take several hours depending on disk capacity, but you can continue access to the ReadyNAS), and after the last disk has been replaced, reboot the ReadyNAS. The expansion will occur at boot time.
carlpea wrote:
This is the info I was referring to:
https://kb.netgear.com/21415/How-do-I-expand-an-existing-X-RAID-volume-with-larger-disks
Replace one disk at a time with a larger disk, letting it finish initializing and syncing after each replacement (this process can take several hours depending on disk capacity, but you can continue access to the ReadyNAS), and after the last disk has been replaced, reboot the ReadyNAS. The expansion will occur at boot time.
That looks like it applies to 4.1.x firmware - if so it's very old. XRAID in all newer NAS (4.2, 5.3, 6.x) supports unequal-size disks.
Marc_V , JeraldM: Can you request that this article be corrected (or perhaps deleted).
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