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Author Topic: migrating drives to DNS-323  (Read 3801 times)

fistfight

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migrating drives to DNS-323
« on: February 15, 2009, 04:59:40 PM »
The situation: I've got 2 identical Seagate 7200.11 500GB drives, that were part of a Lacie NAS.
The Lacie NAS was advertised and showed up (in my computer) as having 1TB of space.

The Lacie NAS controller died on me. I initially thought it was the hard drives as there was a clicking sound when powering on the NAS, but luckily it was just the controller card. I was able to determine, through a process of elimination it was the controller hard and not the hard drives. Through some minor adjustments, I was able to get the data successfully copied to some spare drives I had.

I ended up purchasing the DNS-323, because I figure I could just move the hard drives from the Lacie NAS over to it.

I didn't want to deal with Lacie again, as I found the software that runs on the NAS was unreliable.

My question is:

Will the DNS-323 format the Seagate drives when I install them? Or will it keep the data intact because the file system is compatible?

« Last Edit: February 15, 2009, 05:17:44 PM by fistfight »
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fordem

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Re: migrating drives to DNS-323
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2009, 05:51:43 AM »
Without knowing the file system on the Lacie, there is no accurate way to answer your question, BUT, the probability is that even if it used the same ext2 file system as the DNS-323, the partition structure would not match and a reformat will be required.
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RAID1 is for disk redundancy - NOT data backup - don't confuse the two.

ttmcmurry

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Re: migrating drives to DNS-323
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2009, 10:39:34 AM »
The DNS-323 won't automatically format the drives without your approval.  Like Fordem said, you'll have to try putting the drives in to see if they're readable by the 323.  Personally, I'm really doubtful it will be usable.

If it doesn't work one way, pull the drives out and swap the bay you put them in and try again.
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