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markwoll
Jul 25, 2019Guide
Upgrading 516 raid 6 to larger disks
I have a several years old 516 with 2tb drives in a Raid 6 configuration. Due to some new video gear I am going to have to archive a lot more data. 4k gobbles disk space. I am thinking of going to ...
- Jul 25, 2019
You can replace the drives on your RN516. OS6 does not have volume expansion limitation unlike the legacy units.
You can expand by replace your 2TB drives one at a time and let it resync before replacing each drive until all drives are with the same HDD capacity. Building a new volume is another option.
HTH
Regards
Marc_V
Jul 25, 2019NETGEAR Employee Retired
You can replace the drives on your RN516. OS6 does not have volume expansion limitation unlike the legacy units.
You can expand by replace your 2TB drives one at a time and let it resync before replacing each drive until all drives are with the same HDD capacity. Building a new volume is another option.
HTH
Regards
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