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Title: Tryout with old SATA drive?
Post by: Downeasta on January 04, 2012, 01:59:36 PM

I am anxious to try out my new (to me) DNS-321 but my drive will not arrive for a week or more. I have several old, small capacity, SATA drives. Will it do any harm to simply try it out with one of those or could that cause problems later with the installation of the new 1.5 TB drive? Your advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Title: Re: Tryout with old SATA drive?
Post by: JavaLawyer on January 04, 2012, 04:11:18 PM

If you plan on removing all of your legacy HDDs from the DNS-321 when you receive your new 1.5 TB HDD, installing the older drives will not cause any issues. If you plan on keeping one of the older HDDs in the DNS-321 along with your 1TB HDD, and format the HDDs in Standard Configuration, you will also be okay.

You will encounter issues if you configure an older (lower capacity) HDD and your new 1 TB HDD as RAID 1. The RAID 1 array will assume the size of the smaller of the two HDDs.