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ReadyNAS Duo Upgrade to 2TB Hard Drives
Currently I am running with two 1TB HDD's but I need more capacity so have bought two 2TB HDD's. Current HDD's -------------------- Disk 1 Seagate ST31000528AS Disk 2 Seagate ST31000528AS New...
mdgm wrote: pengjn please don't revive a dead thread in future. Start a new thread and if necessary refer to an existing one.
1. The disks you're getting are 4k sector ones.
2. Only X-RAID volumes are expandable.
3. Perform the steps I suggested above (latest firmware is now 4.1.8). After step 5, discover the NAS in RAIDar (http://www.readynas.com/downloads), click setup and choose Flex-RAID. Then before restoring the config backup, delete the volume created by default and create two new ones.
Sorry - didn't realise that reviving old thread was bad! :)
How do I do step one? I'm guessing that I need a USB drive enclosure and I can use one of the new 2TB disks for the backup until the first 2TB has finished syncing?
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