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Adding used HDD's to raid array
Hi, just making sure i dont corrupt my raid. i have a 4 disc array of 4+4+2+2 and want to replace the 2TB hdd's with 4TB hdd's. the only thing is, the 4TB hdd's i have are taken out of a Synolo...
xbmcgotham wrote:
can i just replace the 2TB's with the used 4TB's one by one?Hot swapping the disks into your NAS should work. As you say, do them one at a time (waiting for resync).
You can also zero them in a Windows PC (using lifeguard's erase function), or delete the partitions (with Windows Disk Manager). Both methods unformat the disks, so the NAS will see them as blank. That shouldn't be necessary, but does no harm.
xbmcgotham wrote:
can i just replace the 2TB's with the used 4TB's one by one?
Hot swapping the disks into your NAS should work. As you say, do them one at a time (waiting for resync).
You can also zero them in a Windows PC (using lifeguard's erase function), or delete the partitions (with Windows Disk Manager). Both methods unformat the disks, so the NAS will see them as blank. That shouldn't be necessary, but does no harm.
Thanks again for your quick response and helpful answer. have a nice weekend.
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