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Title: Messed Up Adding New Drives, How to fix?
Post by: tedfroop on September 11, 2012, 09:04:58 AM

So I had two 1.5TB drives formatted as one Raid 1 volume with about 1.3 tb of files on them. 

I added two 3 TB drives, one at a time and rebuilt Volume 1 to the first one and then removed the remaining 1.5 and added the second 3.0 and rebuilt Volume 1.  All went well.

I wasn't watching carefully when I formatted Volume 2 and formatted it as jbod (I wanted another raid 1 volume)

I had already moved the 1.5's to a 323 and set them as raid 1 and moved about 200 gig of data to them.

Considering what I have what is the best method to get the 325 and the two 3TB drives onto 1 volume?

Title: Re: Messed Up Adding New Drives, How to fix?
Post by: Earle1944 on September 18, 2012, 01:07:40 AM

Hi Tedfroop,
Can you move the 200 gig of data that's on the 323 to something else for a little while?
Take care,
Earle1944

Title: Re: Messed Up Adding New Drives, How to fix?
Post by: tedfroop on October 01, 2012, 02:40:43 AM

There is no way to break the pair and format one drive.  There is no way to format one drive move the data format the other drive and recreate the pair.
The only way to o this was to move 1.3 TB of data then reformat both drives then move the 1.3 tb of data back.
Disk tools would be really useful for upgrading to larger drives

Title: Re: Messed Up Adding New Drives, How to fix?
Post by: Earle1944 on October 02, 2012, 11:04:14 PM

Hi Tedfroop,
It sounds like you've gone down the only path that you could to save all that data and get those 3TB drives formatted the way you wanted.
Take care,
Earle1944