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Aspirant

May 15, 2016

RN 516 does not expand volume automatically

I have expanded my RN 516 installing 6 disks each one of 3TB capacity.

I am using X-RAID, so I was expecting automatic expansion to what I would guess would be a total of abt. 14 TB.

At the moment I only get 8.17 TB available space (out of 18TB installed).

What is the best way to regain the space?

I plan to remove 2 disks, one at a time, let the system resync, then add them back again, one at a time.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
May 16, 2016
mscari wrote:

I plan to remove 2 disks, one at a time, let the system resync, then add them back again, one at a time.

That's not a good plan. The resync puts heavy stress on all disks and if one of the other disks happened to fail during the resync...

I would follow BrianL's suggestion.

Welcome to the community!
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  May 16, 2016
  Disks 4 and 5 are marked as spare. I have sent you a PM.
  - mscari
    Aspirant
    May 16, 2016
    Hi, I am not sure what you mean by PM. Could you please advise?
    Thank you,
    Marco
BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired
May 15, 2016
Hi mscari,

Welcome to the community!

Send us a copy of the complete system device logs so we can review why your ReadyNAS didn't properly expand it's volume capacity.

Looking forward to your response.

Kind regards,

BrianL
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