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RR3312 X-RAID mixed drive horizontal expansion with encryption behavior question
I'm trying to figure out the expected behavior for my ReadyNAS RR3312 (12-bay rackmount) unit. My issue is that it doesn't seem to be utilizing the disk space from larger disks in a mixed-disk confi...
There's an old post that says that encrypted XRAID volumes can't use multiple RAID layers - that explains why you aren't getting full use of your 4 TB disks: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/X-RAID-expansion-on-Pro4-with-OS6/m-p/904492/highlight/true#M55316
That doesn't explain why it didn't convert to RAID-6.
There's an old post that says that encrypted XRAID volumes can't use multiple RAID layers - that explains why you aren't getting full use of your 4 TB disks: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/X-RAID-expansion-on-Pro4-with-OS6/m-p/904492/highlight/true#M55316
That doesn't explain why it didn't convert to RAID-6.
Great, thanks for digging that up for me! It's tough to know what keywords you need to you use find the right information.
Stolorg wrote:
Great, thanks for digging that up for me! It's tough to know what keywords you need to you use find the right information.
And the forum search doesn't help much. I generally use google search instead (with site:community.netgear.com in the search string).
I remembered that the post existed, which helps.
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