Upgrade Capacity in Windows 10 NAS

What can ITE2 NAS user do if they run out of storage space and want to upgrade capacity for their NAS?

Here comes a great and easy solution that user can do!

Under the RAID 1, 5, 10, and other modes like that, we can use [Add hot spare] function.

This function not only can replace the damaged hard drive but also can replace the original hard drive with a larger one.

Please refer to the following introduction for more information.

 (Note: This function does not suitable for RAID 0 NAS).

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In the RAID 1 type, take a hard drive out and press [Rescan Hardware Devices] You can see the status has become [Unsafe]. Replace a new hard drive (4TB hard drive in this demo) and click [Add hot spare].

For how to replace the hard drive, please refer to Replace damaged HDD in Windows 10 NAS

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Select new hard drive and press [OK], and the process begins.

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Then you can see the system status display [Rebuild] It means that system is syncing all the original hard drive’s data to the new hard drive. If you did not see the updated status, press [Rescan Hardware Devices] to update the latest status.

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Wait until the system rebuild finish (rebuilding time may vary in different capacity).

System status will update [Good], then replace another hard drive by the same method.

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After you finish another hard drive and finish rebuilding process, you can see the system status is [Good], but the system capacity did not update. So we have to click [Rescan Hardware Devices].

Upgrade Capacity in Windows 10 NAS Introduction

After re scanning process done, if the status updates to [Initializing], it means the system is upgrading the capacity. If you have done the rescan and the status did not change; you can restart NAS to activate the process.

Upgrade Capacity in Windows 10 NAS Introduction

When the initializing process finished, restart NAS, and you can see the capacity has upgraded to newest information.

 Upgrade Capacity in Windows 10 NAS Introduction


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