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Aug 31, 2016

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unable to horizontally expand Raid5 (X-Raid)

Hallo, i want to expand my ReadyNAS 516 horizontally. I have 3x 6TB WD Red in ther and want to add a 5TB WD Red to expand volume size.But this dont work: If i add the disk the Readynas recognize th...

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mdgm-ntgr
Sep 01, 2016
With X-RAID the disks you add must have at least as high capacity as the existing disks. So you would need to add a 6TB disk not a 5TB disk.

mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Sep 01, 2016

With X-RAID the disks you add must have at least as high capacity as the existing disks. So you would need to add a 6TB disk not a 5TB disk.

Lennardo

Tutor

Sep 01, 2016

Thank you.

But why i cant format this disk? e.g. to use it as backup-volume or so. If i try to format there happen nothing.

Thanks

Lennardo

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 01, 2016
Lennardo wrote:

But why i cant format this disk? e.g. to use it as backup-volume or so. If i try to format there happen nothing.

You need to first switch to flexraid if you want to create a second volume. since you are using OS 6, your existing volume will remain intact.