Over the last few days I replaced each of the four drives until complete. I went from 1 tb to 4tb drives. The unit is a NV+ latest firmware. I rebooted so the full size would be used. For the last hour the display just shows booting and the fan is running on high speed.
Is this locked up, or should I wait before I pull the plug?
You put in (4) 4TB HDDs? Is this an NV+ v1 (selling since 2006, EOL'd last year) or v2 (only made this year). The v1 does not support more than 2TB HDDs.
Called tech support, they said wait at least 1 whole day for expansion. It' been 9 hours so far. The LCD display does not say expanding, just says booting.
Guess by this time tomorrow I will assume it's locked up.
It was working after the drives were installed and sync up.
I updated the firmware a week or two ago. Been fine since.
Installed the drive one at a time until sync was complete, all was well until I clicked shutdown and restart.
Once before when I went fro 500g to 1 gig drives, I saw the same process except after re-starting is showed expading and I think a % done, not sure on that. But now I just see booting and it's been 30 hours.
PapaBear is asking whether your backup is current. In other words does your backup contain all of the data that was on he NAS just before you decided to expand the volume?
You must have an older unit that originally shipped with RAIDiator 3.x which had 4K block size while 4.1.x uses a 16K block to be able to address a larger array with larger disks. The only thing you can do is a factory default which will wipe all the data which is why I asked about the status of your backup. Never, ever trust all your data to a single device, be it a single drive or a single box.
However, if you will open an online case with technical support they may be able to telenet in and get you access to the unit. At that point, you should definitely create and maintain a backup. When you open your case, please edit your first post and add the case number to the end of the subject line.
OK, first of all I have two other NAS NV+ units. SO most of my data is ok. This one did originally have ver 3 firmware. But currently is has 4.110 or so(updated a week ago). The last message I received after 6 hours was Disk expansion error. resize 2fs
So when I restart, it will take 6 hours to FS check, then attempts expansion.
The drives are the NEW WD RED drives Model ED20EFRXSP
This should have worked? I also updated the memory module last year.
OK, complete reset worked, but then did a 7 hours re-sync to the #4 drive.
Seems OK, should this -reset have taken so long?
It had to read every sector on the original three drives, compute the output sector and then write that to the fourth drive. The RAID is independent of the file system, so it is the same process even if the file system is empty. It is somewhat puzzling that it treated drive 4 differently from the rest.
You should check the SMART stats in frontview though, and make sure there are no reallocated sectors or other bad stuff before you load data back onto the NAS.
