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RN104 has 3 1tb drives, but only 1tb of usable same

nathangs
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RN104 has 3 1tb drives, but only 1tb of usable same

Based on the space calculator tool I expect to have 2 gb? Restarting the machine makes the drive green for a while but eventually it goes back off again.  I've tried pulling and reinserting the drive while it was powered on.  I initially started with the 2 1 terabyte drives earlier this week, and added another 1 tb drive a couple days after but I haven't been able to get it to expand with more space yet.

 

 

After rebooting, it will resync for a while then the third drive will go gray again:

 

 

I can provide logs, but I'm not sure if there is any personally identfiable info in them?  Anyone know if they are safe to post publicy to a site like mediafire? 

 

I do have some experience with linux systems, and I may be able to do some further debugging later this weekend once I figure out how to get ssh access to the system.

 

Thanks to anyone who spends time helping me with this!!

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StephenB
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Re: RN104 has 3 1tb drives, but only 1tb of usable same

You email logs directly to netgear - see the instructions here for the address: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/21543/~/how-do-i-send-all-logs-to-a-readynas-community...

 

Your NAS is using triple RAID-1 - which is it not supposed to do when using XRAID (which you are).

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nathangs
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thank you @StephenB

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mdgm-ntgr
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Re: RN104 has 3 1tb drives, but only 1tb of usable same

Do you have a backup?

 

One of your existing disks has an increasing ATA error count. That may be why the disk failed to be added to the array.

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nathangs
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Currently backing everything up to the seagate drive now.  Going to buy a couple larger drives and try again.

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nathangs
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I factory reset the nas after backing everything up.  Afterward, it detected and synced correctly, adding another terabyte to my total storage.    

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