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Author Topic: Can i add a new drive to the 321 without formatting?  (Read 5252 times)

nigelbuffington2

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Can i add a new drive to the 321 without formatting?
« on: January 03, 2010, 05:47:28 PM »
Hi All,

I successfully added a 1T SATA drive to the 321 and got everything working.  Can i add a second SATA 500 gigs to the bay without reformatting the first drive?

-Nigel
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Can i add a new drive to the 321 without formatting?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2010, 05:38:32 AM »
Should be no problem, I'm assuming you're just going to format it as a separate volume, right?
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nigelbuffington2

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Re: Can i add a new drive to the 321 without formatting?
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2010, 04:57:18 PM »
yea, i have an old 500gig sata that i just wiped with wipeDrive and now will plug it into bay # 2 and format it.  I have all my years of pics on the 1T volume 1 that i cannot loose.  So im hoping this will work
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Can i add a new drive to the 321 without formatting?
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2010, 05:00:18 PM »
The only thing I have to say about your dilemma...

Remember: Data you don't have at least two copies of is data you don't care about.

If this is your only copy of important data, the FIRST order of business is to make a backup!  
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mcd0234

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Re: Can i add a new drive to the 321 without formatting?
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2010, 08:46:29 PM »
I actually just did this exact same thing today (well, with a new 1.5TB drive that was added to 1TB drive already in the DNS-321). So long as you don't check the button to re-format the existing drive in a RAID setup (its not checked by default and there is only one question on the page so you can't miss it) when you add the second drive the DNS-321 will recognize it and ask if you want to format it - which you have to do of course.

Everything went fine for me, I just have another standard drive called Volume_2 now. Make sure the original drive is in the right side and put the new drive (or the one you're adding) in the left side. And as the above poster said, make a backup of the existing data first before you do anything
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