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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-320L => Topic started by: Flexman on November 01, 2015, 04:35:17 AM
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Hi!
I used my DNS-320L with 2x1TB hard disks and raid 1. When one HD had a bad SMART check, I replaced it with a 3 TB HDD.
The DNS-Software told me that I could use 1 TB for Raid-1 and keep the rest for later.
Now I replaced the second 1 TB HDD with another 3 TB HDD, to get 3 TB at all.
Unfortunately the D-Link interface will only ask me to format the rest (2x2 TB) for JBOD.
So my question is: Is there any chance to expand my Raid 1 to the full 3 TB now, or will I have to re-format everything and copy things there from the start if I want to have full 3 TB with Raid 1?
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The safest way is to make sure you have a full backup of your data then reformat the drives as a new RAID 1 array of 3TB then restore the data from the backup.
Doing it this way ensures that you have a clean RAID 1 array and your data is in consistent form.
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Ok, I did this. Just put one of the old 1 TB hdd into my windows computer and installed the Paragon extfs driver and copied files from there to my nas. I cannot recommend the ext2fsd freeware driver, since it will have problems handling filenames with umlauts (like ö, ä, ü, etc.).
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Sorry, I didn't realise you had accented characters in file names so didn't give a warning. Here we have a computer that allows us to boot to several operating systems should the need arise to get data from other disk formats.