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Aspirant

Jul 23, 2017

ReadyNAS NVX Not Expanding Storage

I inherited this from the company I work at, and it's been working flawlessly as storage for my home Plex server (couldn't ever get plex plugin to work on the NAS (I guess one issue at a time), so it...

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jak0lantash

Mentor

Jul 23, 2017

X-RAID needs at least two drives to create a RAID (sub)array with redundancy. This should be documented. Have you checked the user manual?

tgtbatq

Aspirant

Jul 23, 2017

So are you saying that I'll need two 3tb drives for it to show any increase in space, and adding one doesn't do anything? I have 4/4 drive bays filled up, but only one is 3tb -- the other 3 are 1tb each.

jak0lantash
Mentor
Jul 23, 2017
Page 42: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RNDU2000/ReadyNAS_Business_SW_05Nov13.pdf
- tgtbatq
  Aspirant
  Jul 23, 2017
  So can I just re-seat one of the current drives and then it will rebuild?
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jul 24, 2017
    If you want it to grow, you need to replace another 1 TB disk with a 3 TB model.