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How to Expand A ReadyNAS NV+ (40003) That has 4 x RAID 1 Hard Drives
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How to Expand A ReadyNAS NV+ (40003) That has 4 x RAID 1 Hard Drives
Hi All,
Please could you assist, I currently have a ReadyNAS NV+ (40003) That has 4 x RAID 1 Hard Drives (all of them were 500GB).
The NAS has RAIDiator 4.1.16 [1.00a043]
It only has one volume C: and I was running out of space with only 6MB of space left.
When I went into Volume Settings I can see all 4 disks (500GB) RAID Level 1, Status Redundant, 463GB Allocated,
Disk space 459GB of 459GB used
I replaced each hard drive (one by one hotswapping) with a new 2TB hard drive.
At each stage I waited till the RAID had re-synced before changing the next hard drive (until I had 4 x 2TB hard drives).
I then did a reboot to hopefully expand the RAID.
Unfortunately after the reboot when I go into Volume Settings I can see all 4 disks (1863GB) RAID Level 1, Status Redundant, 463GB Allocated
Disk space 459GB of 459GB used
There is no change in regards to Volume C:, please could you advise how I can expand the volume to use the new hard drives space.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: How to Expand A ReadyNAS NV+ (40003) That has 4 x RAID 1 Hard Drives
I'm assuming you are using XRAID.
Enable Journaling on Frontview->System->Performance
Disable disk spindown on Frontview->System->Power
Then go into Frontview > System > Shutdown and set "Check and Fix Quotas on next boot".
Reboot (and hopefully expansion will begin).
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Re: How to Expand A ReadyNAS NV+ (40003) That has 4 x RAID 1 Hard Drives
Has anyone determined if the ForceExpansion add-on is still compatible with the latest 4.1.x OS version? http://www.readynas.com/download/addons/4.00/ForceExpansion_1.0.bin
I don't think it would hurt to try, it just might not work
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Re: How to Expand A ReadyNAS NV+ (40003) That has 4 x RAID 1 Hard Drives
Hi Sandshark,
Unfortunately this did not work.
Thanks.
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Re: How to Expand A ReadyNAS NV+ (40003) That has 4 x RAID 1 Hard Drives
I think you'll need to
- back up the data
- do a factory default with all disks in place
- set up the NAS again
- restore the data from the backup.