bay, intending it to replace the oldest of the 8TB drives. I was excited to see the "Replace Drive" function so that the integrity of the RAID pool is maintained throughout the upgrade process. However, when I go to the menu, the "Replace Drive" is greyed out so not available to me...
Sep 14, 2012 Sure, replace the drives one at a time and rebuild the volume. d dhjdhj@dhjdhj* Sep 14, 2012 It was my understanding though that if I do it in that manner, the extra space will not be used. Or is it the case that once the 4th drive is replaced, they will all...
Replace with Larger Drives When using certain RAID types, you can expand the storage capacity of a storage pool by replacing old drives with larger drives. Make sure you do it one at a time and that your new drive meets the drive requirements. ...
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The user may make an error when attempting to expand the storage or replace component drives with larger ones. Although Synology devices allow changing from one RAID type to another via the Storage Manager without losing the existing data, replacement of a wrong drive, improper rebuild or other ...
If they are not, the RAID array is limited by the size of the smallest drive. For example, in a RAID 1 setup with a 2TB and a 4TB drive, only 2TB from each drive is usable, resulting in 2TB of mirrored storage and 2TB of wasted space on the larger drive. SHR's Approach to ...
If you replace one of the smaller drives in the array with a larger one, SHR allows the array to expand without wasting the additional space of the larger drive. Once all drives are of equal or greater size than the largest drive in the initial setup, the full capacity of all drives ...
2 Replace the internal hard drive with a larger one. 3 Turn on the Synology DiskStation. 4 Reinstall the system. See "Reinstall Synology DiskStation" on Page 162 for more information. 5 Connect the replaced hard drive to the USB or eSATA port. 6 Copy the data from the replaced hard ...
The hot swappable drive feature is not supported by M.2 SSD slots. "Compatible drive type" indicates drives that have been tested to be compatible with Synology products. This term does not indicate the maximum connection speed of each drive bay. The hot swappable drive feature is not supporte...
When you are setting up a Synology NAS, such as the 8 bay ( DS1815+ ) system I got, you'll want to start with your smallest drive first and add larger ones over time. If you start with your biggest drive, you won't be able to make use of the smaller ones