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Recommended prodeedure for adding larger drives

mloyd
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Recommended prodeedure for adding larger drives

Greetings,

I'm planning to increase the capacity of my ReadyNAS Ultra 4+. I currently have four 1 TB drives in the unit. I've checked the HCL and am planning to purchase 4 WD RE4 WD2003FYYS drives. After making a backup, what is the recommended procedure for replacing the drives? Should I start by pulling drive 4, let the unit finish adding it to the array, then pull #3, and so on?

Thanks in advance.
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StephenB
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Re: Recommended prodeedure for adding larger drives

That will work fine. There are some limits to growth, but you should not hit them in this case.

If you do want to maximize your future expansion, you could also insert all 4 new drives, and restore from backup. Then your future expansion ceiling would be 14 TiB (*volume size) - enough to upgrade later to 4x4 TB drives.

BTW Upgrading 3 drives to 3TB would give you 1 TB more storage, and might be cheaper.
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