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How to force expansion in RAID-X after disk addition?
I have an RN31400 using X-RAID and the latest firmware (6.9.1). I had 4 disks, 8T8, 8Tb, 6Tb & 6Tb. I replaced the third disk with an 8Tb one, meaning I now have 8Tb, 8TB, 8Tb & 6Tb. All are WD disks on the compatibility list and are recognized fine. Using the RAID-X calculator I should have more than the 14Tb of available space, shouldn't I? It didn't increase when I swapped the 3rd disk out. It is set to RAID-X and reports RAID-5. No snapshots. Apart from factory reseting it, is there a way to force expansion? I've rebooted it, balanced it and rebooted again several times to no avail.
nglshmn
Dec 27, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNas 316Replacing Disks for Expansion
I'm in the process of replacing my 3TB drive with 6TB drives. After replacing a drive the system is of course degragded and works on syncing for the next 12 hours or so. After that the system says: Volume data health changed from Degraded to Redundant. The next log entry is: Disk in channel X (internal) changed state from RESYNC to ONLINE. However, now that the system is "redundant" there is another resync process happening. The system still says redundant, so my question is, can I replace the next drive in the system even though a sync process is happening?
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scullum
Dec 14, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNAS hung/frozen during resync (reshape)
Title pretty much says it all. I have a 314 running 6.9.1 with 6TB+ disks in all four bays. Three days ago, I removed an HGST 6TB drive in bay 4 and inserted a brand new Seagate 10TB in its place. The resync/expansion proceeded without incident, but the subsequent reshape process has been frozen at 78.41% for over 12 hours. The NAS is completely inaccessible over the network, even via ping. I received no notifications about failing disks or disk errors prior to the system freeze. My question now is: What can I do from here? Can I safely power down the NAS in order to test the disks? Can I simply reboot?
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nsne
Dec 04, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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New HDDs failing in Pro 2
Hello, I've been running a ReadyNAS Pro 2 with two 2TB WD red drives. I primarily use it as a backup and media server. I recently bought two 3TB drives (also red) to expand. Along the way I did something that in hindsight was probably not you bright, and likely due to the fact that I don't fully understand how the NAS works! Here's what I did (for this scenario 3A and 2B refer to the original drives, 3A and 3B to the new drives) 1. In an effort to back up the NAS before swapping drives, I took one of the new drives (3A) and hooked it as an external USB drive. The original plan was to then put drive 3B in the NAS (replacing 2B), and once confirmed synced with 2A, I would reformat 3A and replace 2A with it. 2. The first problem was that as an external drive, 3A only showed as 764GB. I removed it from its enclosure and put it as a secondary internal drive, reformatted it and verified 3TB of space. Then I ran a backup from the NAS to the now internal drive (3A). This ran well (albeit slowly) with the exception of a bunch of Plex files which did not copy, possibly because of file name length. 3. I removed 2B and replaced it with 3B and the syncing started. After it finished everything looked good, with 2A and 3B in the NAS. 4. I then replaced 2A with 3A (did not reformat first) with the thought that if I put in a disk with data already on it either it would just wipe it before syncing or at least ask if I wanted to reformat. However, this did not happen. Instead I got a message that "data volume will be rebuilt with volume 2," which I thought strange because volume 1 was already present and complete. I assumed that would be used as the basis for adding additional drives, not the other way around. Although perhaps it's just a poorly worded or translated easy of saying that disk 1 is the source to rebuild disk 2. 5. After some time I got a message that disk 2 was dead. Strange because it was new, and had no errors via SMART+. I removed that disk and the error message persisted even after rebooting. Yellow light on Raidar, flashing green light on the NAS. 6. Swapping the position of the drives did not help. May have made it worse. At this point I'm at a loss. My hope is that I can start over, but before doing so I want to make sure I won't ruin the original disks (2A, 2B). Can I just put back in the original disks and try and reformat the new ones? Do I have to reset the NAS prior to doing this? How can I reformat the new drives to try again? Thanks to anyone making it through my post, and I hope it was clear enough to get some help.
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bgg1
Jan 23, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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Different size HDDs in RN204
Hi, I have recently bought an RN204 NAS with 2x 3TB HDDs and wanted to expand this (2 bays are empty). Currently it is set up in RAID format (although I'm not sure what setting - X-RAID/RAID5 etc) But I wanted to know if I go and buy 2x 6TB HDDs for example, would that give me a total of 9TB space and would I have to do any tinkering? Thanks in advance!
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Bangali
Dec 30, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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RN104 has 3 1tb drives, but only 1tb of usable same
Based on the space calculator tool I expect to have 2 gb? Restarting the machine makes the drive green for a while but eventually it goes back off again. I've tried pulling and reinserting the drive while it was powered on. I initially started with the 2 1 terabyte drives earlier this week, and added another 1 tb drive a couple days after but I haven't been able to get it to expand with more space yet. After rebooting, it will resync for a while then the third drive will go gray again: I can provide logs, but I'm not sure if there is any personally identfiable info in them? Anyone know if they are safe to post publicy to a site like mediafire? I do have some experience with linux systems, and I may be able to do some further debugging later this weekend once I figure out how to get ssh access to the system. Thanks to anyone who spends time helping me with this!!
nathangs
Dec 11, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNAS 4220 - Disk expansion Volume 'data' is 'DEGRADED'.
Was expanding our X-RAID volume with the first of three disks. (Started with 7, and the goal is 10) The rebuild was started, but after 14 hours: How can I solve this? The only "fix" I´ve found here in the forum is to re-insert the disk. That feels a bit risk with a NAS for about 40 people.... Can I continue the expansion with the other 2 disks? Aperently the support is no longer valid and it´s not even possible to send them an e-mail.
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Ty1974
Oct 22, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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