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volume expansion on ready NAS ultra
I have on my Ready NAS ultra 6 bay with 3 HD's of 2TB (initial install). They were installed in X-raid. Afterwards, I installed 3 extra volumes of 4 TB at different timings, the last one a few days a...
There are 2 limits:
1. An 8TiB expansion limit from the volume size at last factory default. In your case the original volume was about 3.6TiB, meaning you could expand to 11.6 TiB before hitting the limit, which is what has happened to you when you put in the 3rd 4 TB disk.
2. A 16TiB volume size limit - which can be overcome with a factory default with a volume size > 16 TiB in place.
Both limits can be overcome with a factory default. You would need to backup all of the data on your volume,factory default, then restore the data.
You cannot just remove 2 of the 2tb disks.
I'm afraid you are going to have to factory default.
You should have a backup of the data anyway.
1. An 8TiB expansion limit from the volume size at last factory default. In your case the original volume was about 3.6TiB, meaning you could expand to 11.6 TiB before hitting the limit, which is what has happened to you when you put in the 3rd 4 TB disk.
2. A 16TiB volume size limit - which can be overcome with a factory default with a volume size > 16 TiB in place.
Both limits can be overcome with a factory default. You would need to backup all of the data on your volume,factory default, then restore the data.
You cannot just remove 2 of the 2tb disks.
I'm afraid you are going to have to factory default.
You should have a backup of the data anyway.
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