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[Bun-Bun]

Ok so I have been trying to get my new 2TB drives alligned properly to the new advanced format structure...

I can not for the life of me get the raid to survive a reboot. I have two nicely aligned and EXT3 formatted volumes... just not raid...

I've been following this thread http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=11631.105 and everything works great until I go to write the new UUID info... (following the guide I had a few situations where things were mounted when they shouldn't have been and cant get things to mount when they should be, namely HD_a4 and HD_b4) the 323 handles it differently then the 343?

I am not a complete linux noob... but I dont know a lot either. I am quite advanced with hardware in general and windows though...

If no one can help me figure this out... can someone at least point me in the direction that people use to replicate folders between two volumes? I have a feeling that would be safer then trusting the DNS-323 to do raid1 on its own...

[MJBURNS]

You say the drives have "new advanced format structure". Are these the Western Digital drives (e.g. WD10EARS and that series) that Western Digital itself says should never be used in a NAS?

[Bun-Bun]

No they are Seagate 2TB ST2000DL003. I have refused to buy WD for years. Their latest shananigans only been one of the many reasons.

It has smart align technology... whatever that does... that supposed to let these drives work without any problems without any additional utilities or special formatting. I dont have enough details though, so I have been trying to manually allign the partitions myself. Which as single drives I have working great!

I have everything working great other then the raid doesn't survive reboot...

but I have seen over the course of all my reading on the DNS-323 that somehow you can create folders that automatically sync each other? I would gladly do this if someone could just point me in the right direction how to... my search's have fallen up short and I dont have a lot of time to research this ATM...
 
 EDIT:

I just did a bit more reading into the smart align... it's supposed to take care of misalligned partitions dynamically on the drive controller itself without the host even knowing about it... so theoertically the DNS-323 shouldn't care nor should there be a loss of performance...

Anyway I can test this? Just do a standard format and fill the drives up and see how they perform?