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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-343 => Topic started by: Tomasulo on October 05, 2010, 11:42:35 AM
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I tried searching on this topic but didn't find anything related.
I currently have (non-raid) hard disks which I can freely move between my DNS-321 and DNS-323 units without need of any re-formatting/setup. If I were to move all 4 disks to a DNS-343 (non-raid), would I need to format my disks again (and have to endure a long process of moving the data over manually)?
Thanks for the help in advance!
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I tried searching on this topic but didn't find anything related.
I currently have (non-raid) hard disks which I can freely move between my DNS-321 and DNS-323 units without need of any re-formatting/setup. If I were to move all 4 disks to a DNS-343 (non-raid), would I need to format my disks again (and have to endure a long process of moving the data over manually)?
Thanks for the help in advance!
Speaking from personal experience, when moving hard disks formatted as standard volumes (i.e. non-RAID) to different slots within the same DNS-343, there are recognition issues. The DNS-343 uniquely identifies the hard drive in each slot although the volumes are non-RAID. I suspect that the DNS-343 will recognize a DNS-323 volume inserted into slot 1, but there may be issues if you insert the same volume (or other DNS-323 volumes) into slots 2,3 or 4.
This is all conjecture since I've never swapped hard disks between the DNS-343 and DNS-323.
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If you do a search of the DNS-343 forum, there were some threads discussing ways to manually update the hard drive ID assigned by the DNS-343 to make the hard drive readable from any slot. This may help in your efforts to ensure your DNS-323 volumes are compatible without reformat.