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RN2304 Unable to expand new Disk
Ive just added a 10TB disk to my set of 3 6TB disks. The idea was to increase storage and in time replace all of the 6TB with 10TB However, having put the 10TB disk in it is just sitting ther...
So this is how the device 'looks' when the drive is inserted and I click on the drive - the Format and Global spare options are highlighted on the right
If i click global spare it looks like its doing something and then nothing happens - Last few entries of logs shown too - since insterting the disk
Doesnt start syncing, not option to re-sync, expand etc??
As previously menionted, I change to FlexRaid to see if that would allow anything
Not quite sure why my pics arent showing?
Can anyone clarify a few things for me.
Is it ok to add a 10TB disk to 4 x 6TB disk in X-Raid Raid 5?
Should it just start syncing straight away - will i see progress of this?
The small disk LED to the right of the disk on the Admin/volume page isnt on - I assume it should be?
OAoffice wrote:
Not quite sure why my pics arent showing?
Embedded pictures are manually reviewed/approved before they are shown.
OAoffice wrote:Is it ok to add a 10TB disk to 4 x 6TB disk in X-Raid Raid 5?
Yes.
OAoffice wrote:
Should it just start syncing straight away - will i see progress of this?
It should if the disk is blank. Otherwise you'd need to format it first. And you will see status on this.
So something is wrong.
I'd connect the disk to a Windows PC and test it with vendor tools (Seatools for Seagate, Dashboard for WDC). I also suggest downloading the log zip file, and see if there is more info there are why your test volume creation failed.
Thank you - connecting to PC was my next plan!
Will report back
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