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ReadyNAS 628 expansion not starting
ReadyNAS 628x running firmware 6.10.8 in RAID6 NAS has operated flawlessly for many years with eight (8) 14TB drives. A recent drive failure led me upgrade to: Four (4) 14TB drives F...
Some good if mysterious news! Since I was going to have to reformat the system to get more space, I completed upgrading from 14TB drives to 24TB drives. I added the 24TB drives (hot) one at a time letting the ReadyNAS return to redundant status after each drive was added. Adding each new drive took a couple days.
I added the eighth 24TB drive this weekend. Imagine my surprise this morning when I saw the message that it had resynced. FrontView reports that the data volume is now 130.94TB. Apparently, encrypted vertical expansion can occur but only when all drives have been upgraded to a larger size.
For what it's worth, my ReadyNAS 628 is on firmware 6.10.8.
At this point I'm unsure how to proceed.
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