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X-Raid 2 Expansion
I have a readyNas Pro containing 4, 1-GB discs set in X-RAID2 configuration. I added an additional 2GB disc and then rebooted, but it only allocated 1GB towards the capacity despite showing 2GB (1863...
You're welcome. Think of X-RAID2 as a "redundant" volume. If you have 4x1TB disks and 1x2TB disk then only 1TB of the 2TB disk can be made redundant (i.e. any one disk fails, data remains intact). However with 4x1TB disks and 2x2TB disks you would have a 6x1TB RAID-5 layer and a 2x1TB RAID-1 layer on top.
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