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[LGShepherd]

Hi D-Link Forums!!

Sorry if this has been reposted elsewhere, but I couldn't find anything that answered my query.

I purchased the D Link DNS-320 ShareCenter NAS a few months ago with 1x2TB hard drive and the time has to come to buy a second 2TB drive as the first one is nearly full. My question is when I order and receive the second 2TB drive then is it a matter of just adding the drive in the spare bay then it will be recognised as extra storage or will the NAS format both drives?

I want them to combine to be 4TB of storage (I believe this is RAID 0?) but I don't want to run the risk of losing the content that is on the drive already.

I use my NAS as my iTunes library, so I want the 2x2TB drives to appear as one volume and one library.

I am starting to look at 4 bay NAS boxes so I can back up my current hard drives, but that wil have to wait a little longer.

Thanks in advance

[JavaLawyer]

I'm not 100% certain how the DNS-320 behaves for the procedure you are suggesting. However, I can say that you should maintain a full backup of your data prior to performing any data migration procedure.

Additionally, with RAID-0, you should always maintain a separate physical backup of your data as the loss of any HDD in the RAID-0 array will result in the immediate 100% loss of all data on your DNS-320.