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Aspirant

Jan 03, 2020

Upgrade of drives due to low space

Hi guys, So my system came up that I am running low on space, I have drives in the following order: 2TB, 3TB, 2TB, 2TB So I purchased a used 4TB WD Red drive, hotswapped it into bay 1 which did hav...

Sandshark

Sensei

Jan 04, 2020

If you click on that drive, does the FORMAT option become available? If it does, then the drive is likely pre-formatted with a "foreign" file system; so format it with the NAS. If that's not it, I recommend you test the drive with Data Lifeguard and the drive connected to a PC via a SATA to USB adapter.

Dalo-Harkin
Aspirant
Jan 04, 2020
Hi and thanks for the reply.
Yes it does come up with the format option which I have tried more than once, but there doesn't seem to be a way if you can check this is completed or not?
I put the old drive back in as it wasn't 100% full, and the procedure just started, it went from degraded to syncing and adding the drive back into the pool, which only took a few hours.
I tried the new drive a few times in terms of hot swapping it and rebooting the NAS a few times and it just didn't seem to do anything with the 4TB disk
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Jan 04, 2020
  Dalo-Harkin wrote:
  
  I tried the new drive a few times in terms of hot swapping it and rebooting the NAS a few times and it just didn't seem to do anything with the 4TB disk
  
  Are you using XRAID or FlexRAID?
  - Dalo-Harkin
    Aspirant
    Jan 04, 2020
    XRAID