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ReadyNAS Ultra 6 expansion
Hello all, first off, hats off to Netgear for their products and to all of you for creating this amazingly resourceful forum. However, I have two specific questions regarding my setup I haven't bee...
I would get the four 4 tb drives and replace 4 of the 2 tb disks, one at a time as you have described. You will need to leave the remaining two 2 tb drives in to maintain volume redundancy. There is no way to reduce the number of drives in an array without a factory default. That said, the two 2 tb drives will continue to be used and you will have a volume of 14.7 tb in Xraid single redundancy.
As for the volume expansion limits:
They apply to the volume size
There is an 8 tb expansion limit from whatever the original volume size was when the unit was last factory defaulted - do you know this?
There is a 16 tb limit which can only be exceed if the unit is factory defaulted with that capacity(>16tb ) in place.
You clearly do not have a backup of the nas contents, which may be unwise.
As for the volume expansion limits:
They apply to the volume size
There is an 8 tb expansion limit from whatever the original volume size was when the unit was last factory defaulted - do you know this?
There is a 16 tb limit which can only be exceed if the unit is factory defaulted with that capacity(>16tb ) in place.
You clearly do not have a backup of the nas contents, which may be unwise.
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