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[Demasterpl]

Here's my Setup:

2x 2TB Western Digital HDs (Green. Yes I know these aren't officially supported)

My only option is to format them as Standard (JBOD, RAID1, and RAID0 are un-selectable)

Even after erasing to Standard these options can't be selected.

I've plugged my HDs into my computer and reformatted them, reset my DNS-321 to default settings (all normal setting are fine with me)

Any ideas I could do to reformat to Raid 0? I was able to when I first opened everything in my initial setup FYI

On a side note I also get Error 119 while trying to erase every once in awhile and have to manually reboot to get rid of this error.

[D-Link Multimedia]

Are you reformatting them in your PC or just removing the partitions? I would make sure you aren't actually formatting them. Second, if you can format them in the NAS one at a time as standard, then put them both in and try again as a Raid and see if that helps. I have never seen it disable the options unless it is only detecting ONE disk.

[Demasterpl]

Are you reformatting them in your PC or just removing the partitions? I would make sure you aren't actually formatting them. Second, if you can format them in the NAS one at a time as standard, then put them both in and try again as a Raid and see if that helps. I have never seen it disable the options unless it is only detecting ONE disk.

I plug them into my computer and delete any/all partitions that the DNS-321 has already created (I do this as an extra step)

But for the most part I'm accessing 192.168.X.X -> Configurations (or Tools -> Raid) and reformatting that method. Sorry that I was unclear on this

[Joke]

RAID 0 is bad. Use JBOD if you want the disks to appear as one.

RAID 0 is of no use whatsoever in a DNS-321, and if I could decide it should be unselectable forever.

RAID 0 is for speed, and for a NAS like the DNS-321 the CPU and network is much slower than your disks without RAID so you gain nothing.
However you loose reliability, in that if one disk dies you loose all data. JBOD only loose the data on the dead disk.

[Demasterpl]

I'm attempting to format to JBOD but it gets stuck at 98% and stays there for HOURS

This has also happened once when I also tried to format to RAID 0

Any suggestions or anything that could cause this?

[Doogie123]

almost sounds like bad hardware.. do you have 2 other drives laying around just to check??  Have you formated in a computer?  That may help you determine wether the drives are ok. The nas should reformat the drives regardless of what is on them when you install them.

My nas also stopped for a time at 98%  At that point it is prob building the allocation tables and whatever eles it needs to acces the drives properly.. But Mine did finish after sometime.. It takes a while to format 3.5 TB..But it wasnt 5 hours after 98%..

As far as raid 0 being useless.. well youll never use all the bandwidth that the raid has.. Heck the 321 can't handle sata 2 speeds of 3Gbs.. If you use jbod, wont the first drive get alot more use than teh second.. That I would wonder about..  And if the data is critical, use raid 1..