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Volume expansion failed-many times
I have a Ultra 6 that had 3 X 3TB WD Red drives in it. I added 3 more. The drive expanded to include the 4th drive, but didnt seem to recognise the other 2. Then it did, but said that the 5th drive ...
What disks were installed when you last did a factory default? If the answer is 2x3TB disks or less it sounds like you've hit the 8TB expansion limit. You can only expand your volume by 8TB over the life of your volume. Adding 3x3TB disks would be pushing that limit of 8TB.
As for a disk being reported as failed there may be some clues in the logs. Download your logs (Status > Logs > Download all logs), extract the zip contents and look at the disk SMART logs.
As for a disk being reported as failed there may be some clues in the logs. Download your logs (Status > Logs > Download all logs), extract the zip contents and look at the disk SMART logs.
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