How to Expand a Storage Pool on Synology DSM 7 (Add New HDD)

Learn how to expand a storage pool (add a new hard drive) to a Synology NAS on DSM 7! Full instructions to guide you through the whole process!

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[ff.photography]

Perfect, thorough and easy to follow. Thank you.

[popo]

Walked me through adding a drive perfectly! Thank you!

[WaltSnider]

Thank you for this video... I had a notification that was hiding the ellipsis in the top right and didn't know to add the drive to the storage pool from there.
Also appreciate the tip to test the drives as well. Great work!

[Honival]

Just wanted to say thank you for this video ! It is really helpful !

[Vicvines]

Thank you for this video. I've been a Synology guy for 10 years but it's always 4-ish years between devices and I always forget how to do things.

[LaJuliasEditSuite]

Thank you for this tutorial, it's straight to the point 👍

[chrisbullock]

Finally, every other video on youtube is only showing you how to just physically add another hard drive and not expand your current storage library if you're running out of space for files.

[miguelcz]

This is just what I needed. Many thanks!

[bell_nz]

Thanks for the vid, was super easy to follow.

[QuikTechSolutions]

Great job on this video! This same topic is also on my list of upcoming video ideas. Happy New Year!

[PatrickBijvoet]

Did it, Thanks! I have 5 spaces in my DS1522+ I bought last month. I bought it with 2 12TB drives and have to save up for the rest. I added a 12TB this week and used your video to ad it. The SMART test took about 15 hours. At this moment it is adding the drive. After 4:17 hours it gives me 9, 33% and predicts about around 1 day and 9 hours 5 minutes (on the moment of checking, it fluctuates around that) left. I will buy my next 12TB next month and am very curious if it goes a little faster then. Your tutorials are wonderful! Thanks from The Netherlands. I just bought you a coffee via your website to Thank you.

[takeuchitrainingcenter]

Thorough and easy to follow with nice voice over.
Can I continue working the data while the new disk is being initialized ?

[ganeshprakasam]

@WunderTech I completed the steps, the new HHD has comeback with status Normal & Healthy, however I don't see the 'Add Drive' option. Storage pool 1 shows SHR, Btrfs. RAID type is SHR with data protection for 1-drive fault tolerance. Appreciate your suggestion

[DioZambrano]

Straight to the point as usual, thank you. I have one random question. Why DSM automatic walkthrough after I added the drive to the NAS takes me to initialize the HDD without asking me to do the Smart Test?

DS1522+
DSM: 7.1.1

[andrewyeow]

Hello thanks for the guide, at minute 4:00 i am afraid i may have missed the expand volume option, is there anyway I can redo this step please?

[nebalt]

Thank you, your videos are always very helpful. is it possible to downsize an existing volume? I am using DSM 7.1.1.

[arksurvivalevolved]

Fantastic, one question, is it possible to change the Storgae pool name? I have a Storage pool 2 (1 drive) that Id like to change the name as HD BACKUP or something

[ilseparatio]

Another great video!
I need a bit of advice in a matter, maybe you can help. I have a 920+ with 4 x 4TB in a SHR setup, 1 storage pool, 1 volume.
Now I have got 2 new 8TB Hdd. How can I safely remove 2 of my installed hard drives and add the new hdd`s? Thank you in advance!

[israelsuperguia]

HI. I just added my 4th HD but it always look as i am using a disk less. Do you have a video explaining what is redundancy and raid? Thanks

[paradantonax]

i miss some steps before , do you deactivates the old drive before changing ? i have this situatiation almost less of capacity 4 drives 1 volume so i pick up a new drive with more TB posiblity making a back up of mij nas at the moment with hybride back up to google drive and wat should be my next step ?