Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-16 Thread Dan
At 3:35 PM -0800 2/14/2011, John Carmonne wrote: On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Dan wrote: >> This is the box I have It states a 2TB capacity but maybe the specs were written before the larger HDD's were readily available? And as you said it appears no drivers needed. http://www.acomdata.com/

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Dan wrote: >> >> This is the box I have It states a 2TB capacity but maybe the specs were >> written before the larger HDD's were readily available? And as you said it >> appears no drivers needed. >> http://www.acomdata.com/app/stx.productdetail.asp?did=48 > > N

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-14 Thread Dan
At 5:39 AM -0800 2/14/2011, John Carmonne wrote: On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Dan wrote: > If the box supports the bigger drives, it's possible that the controller will automagically RAID the drives. Otherwise they'd have to provide some sort of tool to make it do it. > You haven't said th

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-14 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Dan wrote: > > If the box supports the bigger drives, it's possible that the controller will > automagically RAID the drives. Otherwise they'd have to provide some sort of > tool to make it do it. > > You haven't said the actual model name so googling around

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Dan
At 4:52 PM -0800 2/13/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I do have two boxes containing 2 1TB drives each. I want to install 2 2TB drives in each box giving me 2 separate 4TB boxes. Assuming the Acomdata boxes controllers will work. Can I just install them and have them mount as a 4TB box or do I need

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Dan wrote: > > You're terminology is a bit muddied. From what I can tell, you have two > Acomdata boxes. Each box contains two 1 TB HDs, that are RAIDed together, so > they each present a 2 TB volume to your Mac. > > 1) Replacing the 1 TB mechanisms with 2 TB d

Re: Drive upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Dan
At 8:20 AM -0800 2/12/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I have two "acomdata" 2TB drives that consist of 2 1TB Hitachi drives. Each of the drives mount as single 2 TB drives. Can I replace the two 1TB's with two 2TB's and create a single 4TB drive just by installing the new HDD's? Or do I need to do a