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zard1
May 02, 2013Aspirant
Readynas Ultra 2 HDD upgrade
Hi, I've got two 2TB drives running in raid 1 on my ReadyNAS Ultra 2. They are both the same make, WD Caviar Green. I've done some reading and realised that it would probably be better to upgrade t...
zard1
May 02, 2013Aspirant
mdgm wrote: You should not entrust data you are not prepared to lose to a single device.
Absolutely - my idea would be to remove both of the HDDs, mount them on a linux box and let readynas initialise the new drive, then copy everything over. I also have everything backed up using CrashPlan but that would be very painful process to restore.
Thank you very much for all your comments!
By the way, any first-hand experience with the drives optimised for NAS storage?
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