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Dec 23, 2015

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RN104 Adding Disc

I have 3 4TB drives in my ReadyNAS 104 and have slowly been running out of space. I upgraded a drive in my back machine and freed up another 4TB drive.

I have added this to my RN104, I thought it was rebuilding the array to add this volume in but the size expansion has not happened. Restarted several times etc. I can not even remeber which drive I recently added, how do I tell which drive is not part of the array?

How do I trigger the size expansion?

I currently have 436.27GB of 7.27TB free, it is setup with X-Raid (not Flex-raid) and my 'data' volume is Type RAID 5.

Adding Disks

Installation & Upgrade

morganp
Dec 26, 2015
Array has rebuilt and new drive is now part of the array (10.9TB).
Not sure what was different this time compared to the others that I tried to add the drive, but thanks

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 24, 2015
It will be clear from the logs.

You could download your logs and send them in (see the Sending Logs link in my sig).
- morganp
  Aspirant
  Dec 24, 2015
  Thanks, I have emailed them
  - mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Dec 24, 2015
    The last disk you added, the one in slot 4 is marked as a spare.
    
    You could try removing it and adding it again if you haven't already.
    
    If that fails to resolve it we could try forcing it to be added to the array.