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ReadyNAS NV+ RND4000 Capacity
Hello We have been running a ReadyNAS NV+ RND4000 for a number of years now, with just one 3TB drive. Running XRAID, we had 700GB of storage space. Recently, we needed to up that capacity, so...
You're running the latest production firmware for your NV+.
The v2 uses very different hardware. The OS for the v2 won't run on the v1 and vice versa.
So you should either get 2TB disks for your NV+ v1 or get a new ReadyNAS (note the RAID format is different so the disks would need to be wiped by the new NAS).
What firmware are you running?
If it is 5.x.x, then your NV+ is a v2 arm unit, which does support GPT formatted drives.
But from your symptoms, I think you are running 4.1.x firmware. Then your NV+ is a v1 sparc which does not support drives > 2 TB. 3 TB drives usually end up detected at around 700 GB.
If I am correct, you need to backup up the data, remove the existing drives and install 2 TB drives. 4x2TB would give you ~6 TB capacity with xraid.
Yes you will need to back it up - though with only 700 GB space, this should not be a major problem.
You must have a v1. Every v2 firmware has GPT support so you would not have seen this issue on that.
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