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What happens next when I add a drive?
I have a 3312 unit with xraid loaded with (7) 6TB drives. The console says raid 5. If I another drive will the system just exand the space or convert the XRAID to Raid 6. My desire is go raid 6. I'm on OS 6.9.
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It's supposed to convert to RAID-6.
But I suggest switching off XRAID before inserting the new drive -then you can explicitly add it for redundancy. It's fine to turn XRAID back on after you've done that (no need to wait for the resync to complete).
I thought it would of gone raid6 automatically when I inserted the 7th drive. I'll give your recommendation a go.
Maybe Netgear made a change in where it automatically converts due to the new 8-bay NASes? My 4200's definately went to RAID6 automatically at drive 7, but I was on 6.7.something then. Manually making sure it does it is definately your best bet.
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