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Aspirant

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 ...

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

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.
- morganp
  Aspirant
  Dec 24, 2015
  I have removed and reinserted the drive, twice. Each time a new volume data-0 was created, which I destroyed. and the new drive was selectable for formatting.
  
  I have Formatted the drive and the current data volume is now resyncing, 50 hours to go. I am pretty sure this is what happened when the drive was added the first time.
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Dec 24, 2015
    morganp wrote:
    
    I have Formatted the drive and the current data volume is now resyncing, 50 hours to go. I am pretty sure this is what happened when the drive was added the first time.
    
    Older ReadyNAS models automatically wiped any disk that was inserted. A lot of people lost data, because they didn't realize their disks needed to be reformatted to be added to the array. So Netgear changed the OS6 behavior