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[BlueBomber]

Hey everybody - quick question.

I have two 500GB drives in my DNS-321 in a mirrored RAID. I'm running out of space, so I may temporarily throw them into individual drives (non-RAID) until I get the money for some 1.5TB drives or something similar.

Do I have to format the drives if I pull them out of a RAID configuration? I'm hoping that I can simply remove the RAID functionality since they are mirrored, and then format one of the drives so I can get 500GB more space.

Any idea?

[gunrunnerjohn]

I've never tried this, but I'm going to guess that you'll have to format them.


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

[ECF]

I have not personal done this nor is this supported use of the DNS-321 but what you can do is:

If you remove a drive from RAID1 the remaining drive will remain as a standard volume in the unit so what you can do is You can pull one of you drives out then format the remaining drive as a standard drive. Then place the other drive in and it should be detected as a standard drive as well since it is not in sync with you other drive since it has been formated as standard and you should be left with two standard volumes.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Thanks, that's interesting for me to know as well.  That does appear to solve his issue, if it works.