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aegir1
Apr 16, 2014Aspirant
X-RAID (expansion) on Pro4 with OS6
Hi, I just installed OS6 on my old Pro 4. I want to use it as a backup target using replicate. The installation went very smooth and the OS is up and running. Thanks to everyone who made this possi...
Skywalker
Apr 17, 2014NETGEAR Expert
aegir wrote: @skywalker: OK, understood. I guess there have to be some limitations with encryption. That now renders the 500GB drives useless, but so be it. They were old after all, I just didn't have any other use to put them to. Out of curiosity: Is it possible to do vertical expansion of an encrypted volume? I.e. what would happen if I were to set up a volume with 3TB drives now and would later replace all of them, one at a time, with 4TB drives? Would the volume expand?
Yes, it will expand just as JMehring experienced.
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