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[JackTheMan18]

Question: Will the following procedure work to upgrade the capacity of the DNS-323
Background: Currently have a DNS-323, running 2 Sata drives, each 500gb. (Network drive W)
Objective: Upgrade to running 2 sata drives, each 1TB
Proposed procedure:
1. Attach a new 1TB drive, locally to a PC, call it drive X:
2. xcopy W: X: /d /e /f /h /r /k /x /y
3. Remove current 500gb drives in DNS-323; put in 1 new 1TB drive; this is now W: (and is empty).
4. xcopy X: W: /d /e /f /h /r /k /x /y
5. reformat current X: drive; put it into 2nd bay of DNS-323.

Comments/suggestions/improvements?

[tentimes]

I would love to know if there is a better way to do this with keeping the drives in the NAS (well putting a new one in and copying to it first using the 'download' q on the NAS.

I might be wrong, but I don 't think a windows machine using xcopy can copy EXT2 partitions?

The worst case scenario is you have to copy it across manually, but I reckon there must be a quicker way by swapping one of the 2TB drives in, copying, then swapping another one in?

Look forward to seeing replies on this as I can forsee me changing drives in my NAS too.

[JackTheMan18]

By the way, I know that XCOPY works, because I have the DNS-323 configured as a network drive in Windows XP file manager.
I don't think that I can take an approach like you suggested is because I have 2 * 500GB drives in my DNS-323 now, with approximately 750gb of real data (configured as JBOD). Therefore, there are probably some files that are split between the two drives in the DNS-323.

[fordem]

Do not - if you are running JBOD - even think of removing a drive without somehow making a backup, you WILL end up losing the data on both disks - if you had a disk fail, the data on the remaining disk should continue to be available, upto the first reboot, but after that, it will no longer be accessible.

Although I'm not familiar with the "switches" you're specifying in the xcopy command line, as you say xcopy works, and it'll probably do what you need, as well as anything else can.

[JackTheMan18]

Question: related to the last step of my procedure.
If I have a DNS-323 with one disk, with data, and I put in a new,second disk.

a) I will not lose any data on the first disk
b) the dns-323 will insist on formatting one or both drives
c) all data will be lost

a, b, or c???
Thanks in advance.

[garyhgaryh]

Question: related to the last step of my procedure.
If I have a DNS-323 with one disk, with data, and I put in a new,second disk.

a) I will not lose any data on the first disk
b) the dns-323 will insist on formatting one or both drives
c) all data will be lost

a, b, or c???
Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure of the exact scenario, but I have heard of people having the wrong drive formatted after being prompt to format the new drive (it formats the wrong one).  Could be user error but you can probably find the queries/*****ing here on this group.  Make sure everything is backed up.

[Rodent]

I would use a little utility called ROBOCOPY, it gives you full logging of what files are and aren't copied, it is very easy to use just like xcopy but the reporting is a must for that much data.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx

[bigclaw]

I'm not sure of the exact scenario, but I have heard of people having the wrong drive formatted after being prompt to format the new drive (it formats the wrong one).

Happened to me. Originally had one 750GB drive. Put in a second 500GB drive later and got it correctly formatted. Subsequently took the 500GB out and put in another 750GB drive. This time my original 750GB drive got formatted.

Can't see how this could have been a user error as I didn't get to choose which drive to format anyway. Nasty bug if you ask me... 

[fordem]

Happened to me. Originally had one 750GB drive. Put in a second 500GB drive later and got it correctly formatted. Subsequently took the 500GB out and put in another 750GB drive. This time my original 750GB drive got formatted.

Can't see how this could have been a user error as I didn't get to choose which drive to format anyway. Nasty bug if you ask me... 

Were the drives new or at least "clean" - the only way I have been able to duplicate this problem is by inserting a disk containing partitions and data.

[bigclaw]

Were the drives new or at least "clean" - the only way I have been able to duplicate this problem is by inserting a disk containing partitions and data.

It was one purchased new from Amazon.com. Admittedly I did not explicitly verify there was no partition information on the drive.

All indication pointed to an auto-detection and smooth format of the second drive, of course until it formatted the wrong one. The only complicated part was that the two drives were of the exact same model.