2 TB and 4 TB drives - looking to expand drive space

[DavidCX]

Hi there - I am a novice and new to NAS set ups. I have an RN104 and two drives, 1 2TB and 1 4TB, at present it is saying I have a maximum of 2TB available - if I purchase an additional 4TB drive - what will that up my available memory to? Thanks in advance.

[vandermerwe]

Are you setup in Xraid or flexraid?
What firmware is on the nas?
When did you last factory default the nas?
Do you have a backup?

Replacing the 2tb with a 4 tb will increase the volume size to about 3.6 TiB.(vertical expansion)
If you add the 4 tb disk in the 3rd slot it will increase to about 5.4 TiB if you are using Xraid. If you are in flexraid you would need to switch to Xraid first then horizontally expand.

There is information about this in the manual.
You may find this useful:
http://ram.kossboss.com/xraid/

I would strongly advise having an up to date , verified backup before expanding.

If the last reset was on firmware 6.1.4 or earlier, you may want to consider a factory default (wipes disks) and restore from backup as there were some filesystem changes in 6.1.5. Note that this is not absolutely essential.


edit: I see that the volume size calculator is currently not working.

[DavidCX]

Ok - I am struggling - I added the extra 4 tb drive, using Xraid - the readynas rebuilt the storage to I now have 2 4 TB and 1 2TB drives but it is still saying I only have 3.6 TB space - any ideas why? Thanks in advance.

[DavidCX]

it is saying raid5 by the way

[StephenB]

DavidCX wrote:
Ok - I am struggling - I added the extra 4 tb drive, using Xraid - the readynas rebuilt the storage to I now have 2 4 TB and 1 2TB drives but it is still saying I only have 3.6 TB space - any ideas why? Thanks in advance.

Is it done rebuilding the storage? If so, try rebooting the NAS.

[DavidCX]

ok - rebooting did the trick. I now have a new problem, I probably should post this somewhere else so let me know if so. I have been accessing my readynas through a WD media player - all going ok so far, I transferred a couple of movies into the video folder and all fine. So I moved my entire movie collection across - this is a big set of folders (ordered by category) and the wd player cant seem to find any of these big folders - any suggestions?

Thanks again,

David.

[DavidCX]

It also turns out my xbobx 360- has the same problem - so presumably this is an issue with the readynas? Thanks.

[mdgm-ntgr]

What protocol are you using to access the NAS? SMB/CIFS? DLNA?

What version of ReadyNAS OS are you running?

[DavidCX]

readynas 6.2.0

Ok re protocol, it says SMB, AFP, DLNA

[StephenB]

I think the xbox can only use DLNA though. Do you have DLNA enabled on the shares containing the "missing" files?

[DavidCX]

Thanks all - it seems to have fixed itself so possibly there was just a delay in the Xbox 'noticing' the added files

[StephenB]

DavidCX wrote:
Thanks all - it seems to have fixed itself so possibly there was just a delay in the Xbox 'noticing' the added files

You can manually force a rescan of the files on the NAS with frontview.