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Upgrade to Ultra 4 Plus, Max storage capacity
I currently have the Ultra 2 Plus with two 2TB Hitachi HDD's and am happy to report that with the help of the excellent support I received from this forum I have it running without issue. I am conside...
Thank you for the clarification. I get it now. Complicated, but I get the general idea of how the RAID works.
I now have the Ultra 4 Plus loaded with four 2TB drives. One question. I loaded all the drives, connected the NAS to network and power, turned it on and opened RAIDar (which I had previously installed when setting up the Ultra 2 Plus). One other note is that two of the four drives were from my Ultra 2 Plus and still have their data intact. I assumed that the process of loading all the drives in the Ultra 4 Plus would give me an option of wiping the drives for maximum expansion capacity as StephenB had mentioned in the previous post. Anyway, when I opened RAIDar the Ultra 4 Plus was discovered and all four drives were recognized. The Ultra 4 Plus immediately started re-striping the drives and sent me this e mail notification "Volume expansion or migration started. Do not interrupt the system during this time. When finished, email notification will be sent to the alert contact list". The Home page of Frontview indicates "Volume C: Online, X-RAID2, 3 disks, 71% of 1841 GB used". Frontview never gave me an option otherwise and I was afraid to open the setup wizard for fear that it would interrupt this restriping process.
Is the restriping process erasing the data on the hard drives from the Ultra 2 Plus or is it expanding the volume to include the two new hard drives and keeping the data intact? I would like to ensure maximum expansion capacity as StephenB had mentioned and wanted to make sure what is happening now will allow for that or if I will need to actually do a factory default and wipe after this initial restriping process is completed. Bummer if that is the case because obviously you all know how long this takes. Also, the NAS drive still shows up in the Finder on my mac and shows all the shares I previously had setup on the Ultra 2 Plus. Is this normal?
Thanks again, you guys are fantastic with your responses. I hope this post is helpful to others who are also upgrading.
I now have the Ultra 4 Plus loaded with four 2TB drives. One question. I loaded all the drives, connected the NAS to network and power, turned it on and opened RAIDar (which I had previously installed when setting up the Ultra 2 Plus). One other note is that two of the four drives were from my Ultra 2 Plus and still have their data intact. I assumed that the process of loading all the drives in the Ultra 4 Plus would give me an option of wiping the drives for maximum expansion capacity as StephenB had mentioned in the previous post. Anyway, when I opened RAIDar the Ultra 4 Plus was discovered and all four drives were recognized. The Ultra 4 Plus immediately started re-striping the drives and sent me this e mail notification "Volume expansion or migration started. Do not interrupt the system during this time. When finished, email notification will be sent to the alert contact list". The Home page of Frontview indicates "Volume C: Online, X-RAID2, 3 disks, 71% of 1841 GB used". Frontview never gave me an option otherwise and I was afraid to open the setup wizard for fear that it would interrupt this restriping process.
Is the restriping process erasing the data on the hard drives from the Ultra 2 Plus or is it expanding the volume to include the two new hard drives and keeping the data intact? I would like to ensure maximum expansion capacity as StephenB had mentioned and wanted to make sure what is happening now will allow for that or if I will need to actually do a factory default and wipe after this initial restriping process is completed. Bummer if that is the case because obviously you all know how long this takes. Also, the NAS drive still shows up in the Finder on my mac and shows all the shares I previously had setup on the Ultra 2 Plus. Is this normal?
Thanks again, you guys are fantastic with your responses. I hope this post is helpful to others who are also upgrading.
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