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I have a ReadyNAS 214 with 4 4TeraByte hard disks in it, that use X-Raid and Raid 5 on them It is getting full (between 80 and 90 percent used) so, before it hits 100 I wanted to expand it. I'mlooking to see if there is a way to do this by just swapping the drives - since it is working fine, I don't really want to get a new NAS if I don't have to.
I have a ReadyNAS 214 with 4 4TeraByte hard disks in it, that use X-Raid and Raid 5 on them It is getting full (between 80 and 90 percent used) so, before it hits 100 I wanted to expand it. I'm looking to see if there is a way to do this by just swapping the drives -
You can get a pair of larger drives. Hotswap one, and wait for the resync to complete. Then hotswap the second. The resync on the 2nd will happen in two phases - during the second phase the NAS will expand. The capacity rule is "sum the disks and subtract the largest". So going with 2x12 TB would give you 8 TB more storage.
WD Red Plus or Seagate Ironwolf are good choices for your NAS.
Netgear does recommend backing up your data first, as the RAID array isn't redundant during expansion.
I have a ReadyNAS 214 with 4 4TeraByte hard disks in it, that use X-Raid and Raid 5 on them It is getting full (between 80 and 90 percent used) so, before it hits 100 I wanted to expand it. I'm looking to see if there is a way to do this by just swapping the drives -
You can get a pair of larger drives. Hotswap one, and wait for the resync to complete. Then hotswap the second. The resync on the 2nd will happen in two phases - during the second phase the NAS will expand. The capacity rule is "sum the disks and subtract the largest". So going with 2x12 TB would give you 8 TB more storage.
WD Red Plus or Seagate Ironwolf are good choices for your NAS.
Netgear does recommend backing up your data first, as the RAID array isn't redundant during expansion.
