Disk Upgrade from 4X1TB to 4X3TB NV+ V2 ReadyNASRND4000v2

[pure_jax]

I am trying to expand the capicity of my XRAID-2 Configuration on my ReadyNAS NV+ V2 4 Bay NAS and have refered to the instructions listed below: -

https://kb.netgear.com/21415/How-do-I-expand-an-existing-X-RAID-volume-with-larger-disks

https://kb.netgear.com/23133/How-can-I-expand-the-storage-capacity-of-an-existing-volume-on-my-Ready...

I am trying to increase the capacity from from 4x1TB WD Green Power to 4X3TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 which i have checked and is compatible: -

https://kb.netgear.com/20641/ReadyNAS-Hard-Disk-Compatibility-List

However the volume is still reading 2.7TB

It is in an XRAID-2 Configuration and I replaced the drives one by one as instructed however it hasn't picked the extra capacity and extended the volume.

Is there something I have missed? I have restarted the device multiple times.

The version of the firmware is RAIDiator 5.3.10 which i have tried to upgrade however this isnt working either I receive an unrecognised server error has occurred.

Any advice appreciated.

[pure_jax · Accepted solution]

I have resolved the issue myself by using this as a guide (below) turns out you need to restart the device twice in order for it to expand the volume.

https://blog.vacs.fr/vacs/blogs/post.html?post=2011/09/06/How-to-expand-disk-capacity-on-a-ReadyNAS-...

[StephenB]

You've installed all four Hitachi's at this point?

You didn't miss anything, but it might have been better to have stopped with the second disk when it didn't expand.

Perhaps try one more restart, and if that doesn't trigger it, download the log zip.  If it contains expansion.log, perhaps post that here.

[pure_jax]

Hi,

Yes I have installed all four and have restarted the device multiple times.

I have attached the log as requested.

Rename to .log to access

Regards,

Jax

[pure_jax · Accepted solution]

I have resolved the issue myself by using this as a guide (below) turns out you need to restart the device twice in order for it to expand the volume.

https://blog.vacs.fr/vacs/blogs/post.html?post=2011/09/06/How-to-expand-disk-capacity-on-a-ReadyNAS-...

[JohnCM_S]

Hi pure_jax,

Thank you for sharing your resolution and/or workaround. We appreciate your contribution to the community.

Feel free to post any suggestions, questions, recommendations or anything about your NAS that you think needs attention or will help others.

Regards,
JohnCM_S
NETGEAR Community Team

[StephenB]

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@pure_jax wrote:

turns out you need to restart the device twice in order for it to expand the volume.

Normally there's no need for a restart with horizontal expansion. The system does need to be restarted once to trigger vertical expansion - but normally not twice.

[pure_jax]

I logged onto the ReadyNAS dashboard and selected configure to get to the admin options and the log displayed...Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot so I restarted the device and the device displayed the same message so on the next restart it started the volume expansion

[StephenB]

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@pure_jax wrote:
the device displayed the same message so on the next restart it started the volume expansion

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I'm not doubting you.  But that's not the way its designed to work.