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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...
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.
Thanks for the reply.
I'll proceed as planned with the other disk now.
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