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Title: Upgrading Hard drives...
Post by: tazz131 on March 15, 2011, 10:11:57 PM

I'm just thinking ahead to the future.  I currently have 2 1TB hard drives installed in my Dlink 323.  They are JBOB (I think that's what it's called).

I'm wondering, in the future, how difficult it will be if I decide to double each drive.

There wouldn't be a back up of them anywhere...How would I go about replacing the drives?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Upgrading Hard drives...
Post by: dosborne on March 16, 2011, 12:21:08 AM

First off, any data you care about should be backed up.

You could pull one drive, insert a new one. Copy the date to the new drive. Replace both drives with the other set and repeat if there isn't enough space to copy both to the new drive.

Title: Re: Upgrading Hard drives...
Post by: fordem on March 16, 2011, 06:02:19 AM

Quote from: dosborne on March 16, 2011, 12:21:08 AM

First off, any data you care about should be backed up.

You could pull one drive, insert a new one. Copy the date to the new drive. Replace both drives with the other set and repeat if there isn't enough space to copy both to the new drive.

Not with JBOD or RAID0 - your only option is to back up the data and then restore it after replacing the drives, and since you don't have a backup - take note - with D-Link's JBOD implementation, if you lose a drive, you lose your data, even if that data is contained entirely on the remaining drive.

Back it up whilst you still can.