How to expand storage in a TS-262

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I’m new at this and I planned poorly. See attached and you see I installed (2) 4T drives and I’m at a 90% threshold warning. I still have more to sync. Using the adage from an old, Woody Allen movie, “these things always travel in pairs”.

I’ll need to up-size, probably to 2 each 8T hard drives. Is there a programmed way to do this? Or do I need go back to the source files I originally sync’d while setting up.

Also, assuming there is a “system” to move the existing data to a larger drive. Is there a beginners document for formatting the new drives? I did something very wrong the first time. I created a ridiculously small storage pool to start (about 380G), so I filled this thing up in 10 minutes and had to post to the forum which figured it out for me.

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See here
https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/tutorial/article/online-raid-capacity-upgrade

Also make sure you have backups (a RAID is not a backup!)

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You should just put that in your signature. It will save you some typing :slight_smile:

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But then people can’t distinguish between signature and text and get worked up why I bring up backups on topics that have nothing to do with it (I have seen it in the old forum)

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I would also suggest lowering your pool guaranteed snapshot space. Right now it’s allocated to 20% of your drive space. You likely don’t need that much space for snapshots.