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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

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

morganp

Aspirant

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

JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 26, 2015
Hello morganp,

Thanks for letting us know.

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