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[tmallory]

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to add a second hard drive to my DNS-323. I had one 80GB drive already formatted in the box, and I'm attempting to add a 160GB hard drive. However, when I threw in the second drive and went to the admin page, it only showed the option for RAID1, and not RAID0/JBOD/RAID5.

Is it because I already had a formatted drive in the box? If not, what can I do to access RAID0 so I can use my two drives together? (Note: I understand that an 80GB and 160GB drive in RAID1 would just result in a 160GB volume. I plan to eventually RAID0 the 160GB and a 200GB hard drive once I can figure out how to access RAID0). Thanks for any help

[gunrunnerjohn]

To use RAID-0, you'll obviously have to format both drives, so backup anything useful first.

Take the existing drive out and nuke all the partitions on it, then put the two drives in and select RAID-0.

[fordem]

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to add a second hard drive to my DNS-323. I had one 80GB drive already formatted in the box, and I'm attempting to add a 160GB hard drive. However, when I threw in the second drive and went to the admin page, it only showed the option for RAID1, and not RAID0/JBOD/RAID5.

Is it because I already had a formatted drive in the box? If not, what can I do to access RAID0 so I can use my two drives together? (Note: I understand that an 80GB and 160GB drive in RAID1 would just result in a 160GB volume. I plan to eventually RAID0 the 160GB and a 200GB hard drive once I can figure out how to access RAID0). Thanks for any help

80GB and 160GB drives will give you an 80GB RAID1 volume with the remaining 80GB as a separate volume - there is very little point to using RAID0 on this box as there is no performance advantage, and the risk of losing all your data is doubled.