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ReadyNAS 428 drive not adding to volume
Hi I have got a readynas 428 which I have been upgrading the drives from 3TB to 4TB and this was workin fine but when I have put in Drive 8 which is the last one it is not adding it to the volume which previously had 8 drives it just shows the drive as a seperate inactive volume and does not give me the option to add to existing volume like the previous one did, I am hoping to resolve this without a factory reset as I have a lot of data which would take some time to copy back. I have tried flex raid and xraid, volume is a Raid 5 volume with one drive redundancy. Currently the volume is saying Degraded as the last drive would then make it redundant and expand the capacity but this has not occured yet. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for all your help on this, I have done the following which has fixed the issue,
Remove power from the NAS for 90 mins
Insert a brand new Ironwolf drive into Bay 8
Wait approx 24 hours for resync and new drive has been accepted and total capacity expanded.
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Was the drive previously formatted? That can make the NAS think it shouldn't touch the drive. Have you formatted it in the NAS? Doing so will allow the NAS to ask you if you really want to destroy any data already on the drive.
- Yes it was BUT before I put the drive in the NAS I removed all partitions from it, even formatted in the NAS and removed the volume it thought existed, it had the same name as the current volume but with -0 on the end.
Here are some screenshots from the NAS in its current state too.
Im also curious if maybe the drive having the issue drive 8 is not supported but drive 7 is the same model and works so im not sure if it is that fussy.
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