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Aspirant

Dec 05, 2015

RN104 has 3 1tb drives, but only 1tb of usable same

Based on the space calculator tool I expect to have 2 gb? Restarting the machine makes the drive green for a while but eventually it goes back off again. I've tried pulling and reinserting the drive...

Adding Disks

expansion

Installation & Upgrade

Guru - Experienced User

Dec 05, 2015

You email logs directly to netgear - see the instructions here for the address: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/21543/~/how-do-i-send-all-logs-to-a-readynas-community-moderators%3F

Your NAS is using triple RAID-1 - which is it not supposed to do when using XRAID (which you are).

nathangs

Aspirant

Dec 05, 2015

thank you StephenB

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 07, 2015
Do you have a backup?

One of your existing disks has an increasing ATA error count. That may be why the disk failed to be added to the array.
- nathangs
  Aspirant
  Dec 08, 2015
  Currently backing everything up to the seagate drive now. Going to buy a couple larger drives and try again.