Replacing 1TB with 2TB Hard Disk

[ajaybabu27]

I am currently using ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] and firmware RAIDiator 4.1.9 [1.00a043].
I have 4 X 1TB drives. One of my drive is about to fail. I was wondering if I could replace that drive with 2TB drive which would effectively make it (1TB/1TB/2TB/1TB). Anything I should be aware of ?

[bollar]

You can do this, but the extra space on the 2TB drive won't be available to you until all four drives are upgraded to 2TB.


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[mdgm-ntgr]

If you download your logs (Status > Logs > Download all logs) and extract the zip contents what does partition.log look like?

[texastone2000]

I have a ReadyNas Pro Business Edition X-RAID2
Serial <REMOVED BY MODERATOR>
firmware 4.2.5
Volume C: 6 disks 88% of 4606 gb used

First, how do I increase the size to match the amount of drives that I have installed without reformatting and starting over creating the Raid.

Second, I just purchased 2TB drives to replace all of my current 1TB drives that are currently installed. Can I simply hot swap them?

[StephenB]

What drives to you have installed now?

Also why are you running such old firmware?

[mdgm-ntgr]

texastone since you're running firmware that is so old you would be best to update to the latest firmware, backup your data and do a factory default with the new disks installed and then restore data from backup.

Your volume capacity looks normal for 6x1TB disks installed using X-RAID2 single-redundancy. See the X-RAID Volume Size Calculator (see link in my sig).