2TB limit fix?

[zule]

Hi,

I have a ReadyNas NV+ that I have had configured with 4 500GB drives for the last several years. I was almost out of space so I bought 4 1TB drives and went through the expansion process over the last few days.

Silly me, I forgot to update my firmware first. The firmware I was running had a 2TB limit, so I only see 2016GB now. I quickly went and updated my firmware (Now running 4.1.7) and still only see 2016GB.

Should I resynch the volume? I am using X-RAID.

Thanks for any help!

[zule]

I still haven't figured out a solution, but here is what I have done since my post:

- Resynchronized the array
- Volume scan
- Check/fix quotas


Still showing 2016GB with (4) 1TB drives. 😞

[TeknoJnky]

sounds like something that cant be fixed via the forum or anything you can do, you will either need to contact online support and see if they can manually expand or backup (and verify) all data, factory default with all disks in place, and then restore data.

[zule]

Thanks, I will contact support and post whatever solution I can find.

[schalliol]

I may recall incorrectly, but I believe that when the 2TB limit was overcome a factory defaulting was necessary. I recall having to do this when I added my 4th 750 to get that last little bit of space.

[jawknee]

I don't think so. After upgrading my NV+ w/4 2TB drives and a RAIDar upgrade and factory reset - still stuck at 2TB. Appears to be an internal limitation of the sparc based machines. I found this thread after posting my disappointment here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=55738

[PapaBear1]

Are you talking about the X-Raid volume or Time Machine? Time Machine is a backup process for Macs only. RAIDiator 4.1.7 has no 2TB limit. At one point with 4.1.6 with 4xSeagate ST31000528AS drives I had 2.7TB of space. However, prior to installing those drives I did do a factory default to take advantage of the 16K blocks in RAIDiator 4.x. Prior versions of RAIDiator only had 4K blocks, and that may be what you are running up against.

From the logs page (Status -> logs) click on the button that says download all logs in the upper right side of the window. Once the logs have been downloaded, open the zip file and scroll down to find volume.log. Double click to open the log and scroll down to find "block size".

What is the block size?

[TeknoJnky]

your problem and the thread you linked are completely unrelated.

there is a 2tb DRIVE limit for the nv+, not a 2tb VOLUME limit.

with 4x 2tb drive you should get approx 5.5 tb of total VOLUME.

your frontview > volumes page should show something like:

4583 GB (82%) of 5555 GB used 
Additional 5 GB reserved for snapshots		
RAID Configuration
Configuration: 	X-RAID (Expandable RAID), 4 disks	  
Status: 	Redundant	  
RAID Disks:

	Ch 1 : WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 [1862 GB]	1859 GB allocated			
	Ch 2 : WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 [1862 GB]	1859 GB allocated			
	Ch 3 : WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 [1862 GB]	1859 GB allocated			
	Ch 4 : WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 [1862 GB]	1859 GB allocated

[jawknee]

I'm speaking of a Timemachine "share". I had a hard time finding the reference I had found before, but there is this:

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=49058

Which makes it pretty clear there is a share limit of 2TB. I as I said in my posting that I linked to, I have 5.4TB of space - I just can't use it for my Timemachine backups - which was the point of the upgrade.

But - my apologies is I misread and this was a volume only issue. -jk