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Unable to horizontally expand Raid-5
firmware 6.5.0 readynas 2120 I currently had 2 volumes: 1) is a 3 disk---2TB set up as a Raid 5, which gave me 4TB of storage. The 2nd volume was 1 disk--4TB----JBOD. I have now copied what I ne...
"Destroying" the volume on the 4TB doesn't matter. If you want, you can reinsert it in place if the unused 2TB, but it's not going to make any difference here.
You can't expand a syncing RAID. You just have to wait for the sync to complete.
Leave the blank 2TB HDD in the chassis, turn on X-RAID (you don't need Flex-RAID). When the resync is finished, it will pick-up the fourth 2TB HDD and will expand your RAID5.
Inactive volumes show up when there is HDD with a partition on a HDD that the ReadyNAS can't put in any mountable RAID array.
Destroying a volume prior to remove its HDD(s) is probably good practice as it allows to clean any trace of it in the configuration. But not doing so is not a problem. Well, I have never seen a situation where it caused any.
So you're right, it's better to do it, but it's most likely ok not to.
Destroying a volume prior to remove its HDD(s) is probably good practice as it allows to clean any trace of it in the configuration. But not doing so is not a problem. Well, I have never seen a situation where it caused any.
So you're right, it's better to do it, but it's most likely ok not to.
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