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greenlightcomp
Dec 20, 2021Aspirant
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 whi...
- Dec 27, 2021
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.
Sandshark
Dec 20, 2021Sensei - Experienced User
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.
greenlightcomp
Dec 20, 2021Aspirant
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.
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