I had a drive fail on my Synology NAS just a couple of weeks ago and took the opportunity of expanding capacity during the replacement. Synology uses a "hybrid raid 1" configuration so I don't know whether it's a generic capability or just for Synology. The NAS had 2 x 2TB drives and I bought 2 x 3TB WD Red NAS drives. I removed the failed drive and replaced it with a new one and after a few hours it synchronised and I had 2TB of storage available to me. After letting it settle down for a few days I replaced the 2nd drive and after a few hours of synchronisation had 3TB of storage space. Couldn't have been more straightforward.
Chris On 26 June 2015 at 03:19, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Question for the network admin gurus here on the list. > > I have a NAS box with two Seagate ST31500341 1.5TB SATA drives in a > Raid-1 (Mirror) configuration. One of the drives failed. > > The best value replacement I found is a 2TB Seagate NAS HDD (hard-drive > specifically manufactured for NAS). > > I purchased two identical 2TB drives. The two NAS drives cost less than > the cost of a single *refurbished* Seagate ST31500341 1.5TB SATA drive > (no longer available new & the price point for new 1.5TB drives was even > higher). > > The RAID will finish rebuilding in about 4 hours, but if I understand > how these things work, I will only be able to use 1.5TB of the 2TB drive. > > Should I go ahead and swap out the other 1.5TB drive & rebuild the RAID > a second time? > > If I do so, will I get full use of the 2TB drives or are they going to be > limited by the original 1.5TB RAID Mirror size? > > I've been using PCs & building my own since 1980. I've had some external > USB drives that wouldn't work after sitting for a while & I've had > internal drives that failed after sitting on a shelf, but this is the > first hard-drive I've had fail in use. > > (Not including when I worked at the IBM PC Company integrated software > sub-systems lab & the programmers abused the shit out of the hardware. I > was always replacing drives, motherboards, adapter cards, etc that they'd > burned up hot swapping stuff that wasn't intended to be hot swapped. But > that's another story.) > > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
