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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: komy123 on May 05, 2010, 09:57:28 PM
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Hi,
I recently brought the DNS-323 with 2 WD 1TB WD10EARS drives. When I try to setup the RAID, it only show 99GB as the available space. I can see all 2TB of space with no problem if I format the drives using the standard configuration.
Do you have any suggestion on how I can format the drive as RAID 1 with all the available space?
Thanks,
Komy
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Hi what version of windows are you using?
When i first setup my 323 in windows 7 it was just showing 99 due to the driver being wrong.
Try using theses
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Multimedia/dns323/Drivers/dns323_driver_PNPX_102.zip
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You've purchased 2x 1TB drives and you have them in RAID1 configuration? You're only going to see 1TB of capacity then :)
The data is mirrored over both drives. If you want to utilise 2TB of space, you need to take them out of RAID or purchase 2x 2TB drives.
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Yes. I have 2 1TB drives. The problem is that the web UI only should that I can have 99GB of capacity when I try to do the RAID 1. I thought I should see 1TB, at least.
obladeo - how do I install the dns323_driver_PNPX_102.zip driver? I am on Win 7 32-bit, I am already able to access and see the drive by IP address.
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Forget the driver.
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Hi,
I recently brought the DNS-323 with 2 WD 1TB WD10EARS drives. When I try to setup the RAID, it only show 99GB as the available space. I can see all 2TB of space with no problem if I format the drives using the standard configuration.
Do you have any suggestion on how I can format the drive as RAID 1 with all the available space?
Thanks,
Komy
That seems about right...
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ECF - Thanks. If I understand it correctly, when I format the NAS's two drive normally, I will get a total of 2TB space from my 2x1TB drive. If I format it as a RAID 1, my NAS (2x1TB drive) will only end up with 99GB of space at the end?
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ECF - Thanks. If I understand it correctly, when I format the NAS's two drive normally, I will get a total of 2TB space from my 2x1TB drive. If I format it as a RAID 1, my NAS (2x1TB drive) will only end up with 99GB of space at the end?
No that is not correct. You should get 1000GB of space (minus a few GB for partitions (Swap) ). Is this one of those Advanced Formatting Drives?
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No that is not correct. You should get 1000GB of space (minus a few GB for partitions (Swap) ). Is this one of those Advanced Formatting Drives?
Yes, they are.
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Sorry, I miss-read your 99Gb... I was thinking you was seeing just under 1Tb, which would have been about right probably as you never get the full advertised capacity on drives anyway...
I don't really know the answer but from what I can gather from reading further, you have to do some partition wizardry to get them working properly...
http://products.wdc.com/Library/Flyer/ENG/2178-771123.pdf
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=11631.0
Personally I'd sooner use a normal drive!
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Thanks for the help!
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Sorry, I miss-read your 99Gb... I was thinking you was seeing just under 1Tb, which would have been about right probably as you never get the full advertised capacity on drives anyway...
I don't really know the answer but from what I can gather from reading further, you have to do some partition wizardry to get them working properly...
http://products.wdc.com/Library/Flyer/ENG/2178-771123.pdf
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=11631.0
Personally I'd sooner use a normal drive!
Whoops...Me too..was thinking 999GB ???
Please read this Post.
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=12977.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=12977.0)