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Unable to Add New Volume
Added a new 4TB HDD to NAS. It is the same size and make of the previous one. The NAS synced for several hours and the HDD now shows up in the NAS. However I am unable to format or add new volume. I swithced to FlexRAID and it is not working
If X-RAID was enabled when you added the disk it would have been automatically used to provide redundancy. That's what the several hours of syncing was doing.
You can backup your data, disable X-RAID (if it's currently enabled), destroy the volume (note this wipes all data) and then create the new ones you want and then restore your data from backup.
Alternatively you could add another disk and this time you would get expansion using X-RAID.
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thats crazy
If X-RAID was enabled when you added the disk it would have been automatically used to provide redundancy. That's what the several hours of syncing was doing.
You can backup your data, disable X-RAID (if it's currently enabled), destroy the volume (note this wipes all data) and then create the new ones you want and then restore your data from backup.
Alternatively you could add another disk and this time you would get expansion using X-RAID.Thanks for the reply. Could you be a bit more clear? Did the new disk create redundancy because X Raid was enabled?
I cannot backup data; was using NAS as backup. Is there someway of doing this without destroying the two disks
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