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Title: RAID-1 between a 1.5Tb drive and a 2Tb drive
Post by: dmnc_ on October 23, 2010, 04:22:36 PM

I suspect one of my Seagate drives in my first 323 is actually beginning to fail. It's been reported as "removed" a couple of times, but every time I scan the disk it claims to work perfectly, and the rebuild always works. I don't wanna have to rely on that disk though so I'm gonna replace it, but maybe I should replace it with a bigger one that's low-energy and 5400RPM instead so when the other fails I'll have a bigger NAS. Will the RAID work with different sized disks until then? And will it let me make a non-raided volume of the extra .5Tb?

Title: Re: RAID-1 between a 1.5Tb drive and a 2Tb drive
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on October 23, 2010, 05:32:34 PM

It'll rebuild the RAID on the 2TB, but it'll only be a 1.5TB volume and the 500 will be unused.  I'm not sure you can use that at all on this NAS, never tried it.

Title: Re: RAID-1 between a 1.5Tb drive and a 2Tb drive
Post by: fordem on October 24, 2010, 11:13:43 AM

With the early firmware versions, you would lose the 500GB "remainder", but I believe later ones allow it to be used as Volume_2, unfortuately, I have no idea which version that was introduced with.

Title: Re: RAID-1 between a 1.5Tb drive and a 2Tb drive
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on October 24, 2010, 04:59:49 PM

I've never tried it, so I can't say, I just know that the RAID will be 1.5TB. :)