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Title: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: stephenwoodhead on May 30, 2010, 04:54:25 AM

Hi I am getting a replacement 323 sent out to me. I have my old 1.5T HD and it looks OK, how do I put it back in to the new 323 without having to re format and loose info?

Title: Re: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on May 30, 2010, 06:23:31 AM

I think that should work fine. Of course, you should have backup anyway, right? ;)

I tried a pair of RAID-1 drives from a DNS-323 in a DNS-321, once I realized that the left/right was backwards on the DNS-321, they worked and the RAID even recovered.  Seems that the same model box should be less of a problem.

Title: Re: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: jamieburchell on May 30, 2010, 10:16:43 AM

Wondering myself actually, does the NAS need to know which mode the drives are configured in, or does it work that out from the drive content? E.g if you put a pair of drives configured as JBOD in to a new 323- does it know that's the case from examining the data on the disks? I'm guessing the config isn't read from the NAS memory.

Title: Re: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on May 30, 2010, 10:49:45 AM

Yes, it examines the drives to determine the type.  I've reset my boxes several times and they've always figured out the format of the drives.

Title: Re: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: jamieburchell on May 30, 2010, 12:56:28 PM

Ah of course, it would need to survive a confog reset :)

Title: Re: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on May 30, 2010, 01:22:53 PM

Not only a confog reset, but a config reset as well. :D

Title: Re: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: jamieburchell on May 30, 2010, 01:29:48 PM

That too!

Title: Re: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: DukeNukem on August 19, 2010, 11:47:28 AM

I think this thread answered my question, but let me pose it just to be sure.  

I have two DNS-323 boxes.  One of them is my Data server and is hard to get to the back of the unit to replug in power and the USB printer.  The second is to become a Backup server for TrueImage backups of my 3 computers.  I have a Raid 1 set in each box.  I could swap the boxes out and then change the ip config information, but it would be far easier if I could just swap the drives out.  

If I understand this thread correctly, I can take the older set out of Box 1 and put them in Box 2 and put the set from Box 2 into Box 1.  Then Box 1 would retain all of the network configuration settings for my data server but the two new drives as a Raid 1 volume would be available on my Data Server.  Since the Raid volume information is stored on the drives.  (similarly for my Backup Server)

Did I miss anything?  

P.S.  Originally I was using the one drive for both Data and Backup, but it was getting too full, so I decided to split the functionality up.  

Title: Re: puting pre formated HD in to new 323 case
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on August 19, 2010, 11:54:38 AM

I have taken a set of drives from a DNS-321 and installed them in a DNS-323, so what you describe should work.  I had a failure doing this once before I realized that "left is right" in the DNS-321.

Swapping drives between the DNS-323 boxes, assuming you keep them in the same slots, shouldn't be an issue.  Obviously, I'd make sure you have the same firmware versions in each machine.

I think I'd be inclined to bite the bullet and swap the boxes, why risk any issues?