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Replacing all discs in unit will not increase space RN102
Hi
I'm using RN102 i X-RAID mode.
First i had two HDD - 1TB each.
After couple years free space ends so I replaced two drives to 4TB each acting like that:
- replace first disk
- synchronization
- replace second disk
- synchronization
As i remember after that everything was ok. I had one 4TB drive operating at X-RAID (Raid 1). But then one of new 4TB discs fails... I did remove it and replace with 1TB (old one).
My RAID resynced one again and back to 1TB X-RAID.
After some time i bought new 4TB (the same model like first one - Seagate SkyHawk) and again remove 1TB to replace with new 4TB.
After synchronization i have X-RAID (RAID 1) on two 4TB discs but my capacity is still 1TB
I have no idea how to change capacity to 4TB? Defrag, cleaning, balancing doesnt work.
Any idea?
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cezarysz wrote:
As i remember after that everything was ok. I had one 4TB drive operating at X-RAID (Raid 1). But then one of new 4TB discs fails... I did remove it and replace with 1TB (old one).
My RAID resynced one again and back to 1TB X-RAID.
XRAID won't shrink the file system, so I am thinking that you must have done a factory reset (or deleted/recreated the volume) at this point.
The only other possibility I can think of is that the volume never expanded to 4 TB.
Generally speaking, you can't replace a disk with a smaller one. You need to replace it with the same size, or a bigger one.
cezarysz wrote:
After some time i bought new 4TB (the same model like first one - Seagate SkyHawk) and again remove 1TB to replace with new 4TB.
After synchronization i have X-RAID (RAID 1) on two 4TB discs but my capacity is still 1TB
I have no idea how to change capacity to 4TB? Defrag, cleaning, balancing doesnt work.
Try rebooting the NAS. Normally that will trigger the vertical expansion to 4 TB.
I tryed to reboot and power down NAS before. It doesn't work.
How to create new volume and not to lose all the data?
cezarysz wrote:
How to create new volume and not to lose all the data?
Make a backup, and restore the data to the new volume from the backup.
RAID isn't enough to keep your data safe, so you should have a backup plan in place anyway.
cezarysz wrote:
I tryed to reboot and power down NAS before. It doesn't work.
Can you post a screen shot of your volume page?
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