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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
  - Sandshark
    Sensei
    Jan 04, 2020
    Then is sounds like you may have a DOA drive. Have you tried testing with Data Lifeguard?