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dreistreifen
Jan 22, 2022Aspirant
RN314 - Removed a 2TB drive, added a 4TB one, and my storage is the same???
Hi folks, I currently have a ReadyNas 314 which has been running away happily with 4 x 2TB drives using RAID 5 ever since I first purchased it. Over time, it was slowly running out of space and s...
StephenB
Jan 22, 2022Guru - Experienced User
dreistreifen wrote:
However, I've found that even though it recognises the newly installed disk as 4TB there is NO increases in the available space???
Correct - that is normal. Upgrade the second drive (making sure the sync is finished first), and the volume will then expand to 6 TB (5.45 TiB) to 8 TB (7.27 TiB).
The capacity rule for single reduncancy XRAID is "sum the disks and subtract the largest", so upgrading just one doesn't give you more space.
- dreistreifenJan 22, 2022Aspirant
Thanks for the reply.
I'll proceed as planned with the other disk now.
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