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Upgraded Pro6 X-RAID2 (Raid-6) array but no extra space allocated

SiegeX
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Upgraded Pro6 X-RAID2 (Raid-6) array but no extra space allocated

As of yesterday the 6 drives in my 4.x Pro6Pro6 were the following:

 

3x3x 1TB1TB Drives

3x3x 2TB2TB Drives

 

The X-RAID2RAID2 allocation was 3.7TB7TB which makes sense since it allocated 937GB937GB/disk with 2-disks worth of space lost for redundancy.

 

One of my 1TB1TB drives was giving me tons of SMART errors so I prepre-empitvelyempitvely replaced it with another 2TB2TB drive.

 

I had expected that my total allocated space would now jump since I now have four drives with ~2TB~2TB of space but my allocation stayed at 3.7TB7TB once the array was rebuilt.

This X-Raid Calculator confirms I should have upwards of 5.3TB3TB of space with this new 2TB2TB drive added.

 

Can somebody please explain why my allocation did not increase?

 

Thanks

 

## Update ##

I just checked my logs and I see the following:

Found space that can be used to expand capacity, expansion process will start during next boot.

 

Nevermind!

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BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: Upgraded Pro6 X-RAID2 (Raid-6) array but no extra space allocated

Hi SiegeX,

 

After reboot, did the expansion started?

 

 

Kind regards,

 

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

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