My NV+ has two volumes consisting of two disks each, I have just completed an upgrade of two 3TB disks to two 4TB disks, this is my C volume; now I would like to use the old 3TB disks to upgrade the D volume which consists of two 2TB disks. Before I insert one of the 3TB disks I'd like to be sure that it won't try to sync the 3TB to the 2TB or something silly like that. Do I need to quick-format or full-format the disks in a PC first? What's the easiest and safe method of performing this upgrade using the two disks that just came out of the same NV+? Thanks.
I don't own a v2, so I'm not sure what will happen (particularly in flexraid). One thing you can do is unformat the drive before you insert it.
If you connect it to Windows, you can the disk manager. Then select every "volume" on the disk (which are really partitions) and delete it.
Alternatively you can zero the disk with either Seagate's Seatools or WD's Lifeguard software. Lifeguard has a "quick erase" test that will delete all the partition data on the drive.
Either way, the NAS will think the drive is blank.
