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Volume Size incorrect on RN314
Hi,
I have a ReadyNAS RN314 and when I set it up a few weeks ago, I used 3 x 2TB drives. From memory, this reported the effective disk space as 3.45TB which seemed ok to me.
Over the last few days, I have exchanged the three drives one by one for new 4TB drives, waiting each time for the raid to rebuild the added disk. It all seems to work fine but with 3 x 4TB drives, I would have expected effective disk space to increase to around 7.5TB but the single volume "data" (containing data, snapshots and free space) is only showing as a totla of 5.45TB. X-RAID is active and the type is shown as RAID 5.
Have I missed something? I was expecting the combination of three identical disks to result in an effective capacity of two disks with the third for data protection. Hopefully I don't need to do a full backup and then format all the disks and rebuild the volume, not doing this was an attraction of X-RAID.
I didn't find anything in a search, apologies if I have missed the answer. I'd appreciate any assistance to solve this.
Your volume is currently resyncing. I would wait for this sync to complete.
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Have you tried a reboot?
Please send in your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)
Thanks for the quick reply. I have emailed the logs now.
I have rebooted approx 3 times without any difference in the reported volume size.
Your volume is currently resyncing. I would wait for this sync to complete.
The resync finally finished moments ago. After a reboot, I now see a volume size of 7.27GB.
Thankyou mdgm and also Skywalker.
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