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7lkf7
Mar 24, 2018Aspirant
Why My ReadyNAS PRO is 1T less than the Raid Calulator
Hi everyone, I did use the Netgear Xraid calculator configured my raid setup, three 4TB drives, one 2TB plus two 1TB drives in X-RAID . refer to Calculator I should get 10.9TB in total. but my real...
- Mar 28, 2018
Hi 7lkf7
You can perform factory reset if you want but make sure you have backed up all your data. You may want to wait for StephenB 's advise once the log has been checked.
Doing factory reset removes all data so make sure everything has been copied or updated. I'm pretty sure what the calculator is showing will be the same with your volume after the factory reset.
Regards
7lkf7
Mar 27, 2018Aspirant
Hi Marc
Thank you for your reply, I did use an expansion instead of Factory reset. as I was a bit lazy to copy all the data out from my original setup.
My original setup was 3 1TB drive. so what I did is 1, put out 1TB and replaced by new 4TB and wait for sync. and did another one, and another one. after I replaced 3 old drive. I installed one 2 TB and sync, and 2 more 1TB.
Am I did this in a correct way?
Thank s
StephenB
Mar 27, 2018Guru - Experienced User
7lkf7 wrote:
My original setup was 3 1TB drive. so what I did is 1, put out 1TB and replaced by new 4TB and wait for sync. and did another one, and another one. after I replaced 3 old drive. I installed one 2 TB and sync, and 2 more 1TB.
Once you upgraded two drives to 4 TB, you aren't supposed to install smaller drives than 4 TB. There already was a 1 TB RAID group because you started with 3x1TB, so I think that worked out ok with the 1 TB disks. I think what happened is that you ended up using only 1 TB of the 2 TB drive.
Can you post mdstat.log (as I requested earlier).?
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