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Re: What happens next when I add a drive?

daddygrant
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What happens next when I add a drive?

I have a 3312 unit with xraid loaded with (7) 6TB drives.  The console says raid 5.  If I another drive will the system just exand the space or convert the XRAID to Raid 6.  My desire is go raid 6.  I'm on OS 6.9.

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StephenB
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Re: What happens next when I add a drive?

It's supposed to convert to RAID-6.

 

But I suggest switching off XRAID before inserting the new drive -then you can explicitly add it for redundancy.  It's fine to turn XRAID back on after you've done that (no need to wait for the resync to complete).

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daddygrant
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Re: What happens next when I add a drive?

I thought it would of gone raid6 automatically when I inserted the 7th drive.  I'll give your recommendation a go.

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Sandshark
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Re: What happens next when I add a drive?

Maybe Netgear made a change in where it automatically converts due to the new 8-bay NASes?  My 4200's definately went to RAID6 automatically at drive 7, but I was on 6.7.something then.  Manually making sure it does it is definately your best bet.

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