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[noem]

well, cheap or not cheap. it depends on you economic situation . I live in Sweden and i bought one disk for 135 usd in sweden. where I bought it its probably not the cheapest place but it had it in stock.
I will use one of the old 500gb in a external case to backup the most critical data. thank you for all your help.

[JavaLawyer]

Glad to help and best of luck.

[noem]

Maybe a useless post but now I have finally retransferred all data back to the NAS. Running RAID1 with no problems. It took a while though but not as long as I thought. Average speed was 20 mb/s. I have a dns323 that only reach 12 mb/s. Maybe due to faster cpu in 320? I always get mbit/mb/s etc confused but I think you know what I mean  .

Would be nice though if the NAS would be able to format as RAID1 only if there where one disk in the NAS. But I guess there is probably a very good reason why it doesnt work...

[JavaLawyer]

Would be nice though if the NAS would be able to format as RAID1 only if there where one disk in the NAS. But I guess there is probably a very good reason why it doesnt work...

By definition, RAID 1 has two HDDs. If the DNS-320 were to create a 1 HDD RAID 1 array, the array would be broken and subject to data loss. Given your unique situation, I was hoping there was a way around the formatting issue, but in practice, the DNS-320 shouldn't allow the creation of a partially formatted array (for multiple reasons).

[coolius]

Hi,


I've just received my new DNS320 and would like to use my existing 2TB hard drive. This hard drive is half full and formatted in NTFS.

I know that the NAS requires its drive to use EXT3 so I was hoping that if I shrunk the NTFS partition, created a new EXT3 partition, moved the files onto the new partition and the deleted the NTFS partition and expanded the EXT3 partition with the data using something like G-Parted, I could use this drive in the NAS without losing the data.

Would this work or does the 320 require a fresh, empty partition on setup? I've tried looking for the answer in the manual and on these forums but had no luck.

Thanks

Hey guys,

I successfully managed to reformat my hard drive from NTFS to EXT2 without losing any of the data.

After dropping it in to the NAS for the first time however, it still sees it as a new drive. I suspect this is because I have created one large partition with my data which it seems isn't the way that the 320 likes the drive to be laid out.

Does anybody know how I can trick the DNS-320 into thinking this drive is not new, there fore allowing me to keep my data rather than have the NAS reformat it?

[ivan]

As far as I know there is no way that you are going to get that drive in the NAS without letting the NAS format it.

If the data it contains is important then you will have a backup of it so the only inconvenience of allowing the NAS to format the drive is the copying of the data back to it.  If you don't have a backup then I would say you need to get one of the 1 TB USB drives and copy as much of the data to there - anything that won't fit should go on to your PC.  Then you can let the NAS format the drive and your data will be safe and all you have to do is copy it to the NAS.