raid/volume expansion

[jstubbs]

Sorry, I posted my original question in the hardware/software forum. More appropriate here.

Hello All,

This is the first time I've had to seek help with our QNAP TS-659 (originally branded as a Cisco NSS 326). It has ran flawlessly for years. However in the last 5 weeks, I've had three disks fail or start to fail. With the third alert about another disk starting to fail, I had the staff purchase replacement disks for the unit. 4 TB disks. Of course, that means, I've run into the 16 TB expansion/migration volume limitation. Searching for a solution, so that I can take advantage of all 24 TB of storage, I found this response by @P3R to another poster's question:

viewtopic.php?f=182&t=129971&p=596804&h ... 59#p596804

I have two good backups, so not worried about losing data. My question is, do I have to reset the NAS unit OR just delete the existing volume and then recreate it as a 24 TB volume, and then pull the data from the backups back into the "Public" folder???

Sorry for the newby questions, but "measure twice, cut once".

Thx in advance for any advice!!

[dolbyman]

with 3 faulty disks..you are looking at a full raid failure on rebuild anyways..so just go and create a new volume from scratch (as you would have to anyways to get around the 16TB limit)