I want to upgrade the HDD in my ds218play. My question is multipart, so please bear with me.
The NAS has 2 HDD bays. One of them has a 4TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD. The other bay is vacant. RAID is not configured.
I want to install 2 8TB Ironwolf Pro HDDs: one in each bay and use RAID 1 (the NAS doesn't support SHR). The existing HDD data is already extended SMART tested and fully backed up to a NTFS formatted external USB drive.
Here's my question regarding the order of operation:
I first plan to install a new drive into bay 2 and run an extended SMART test on it.
I then plan to use DSM clone the existing drive to the new drive.
I then plan to remove the existing old drive and move the new drive into bay 1.
I then plan to run some tests to ensure that the new NAS configuration is operating properly.
I then plan to install the other new drive into bay 2 and run an extended SMART test on it before I configure the NAS for RAID 1.
Now, here's my question assuming that all has went well up to this point:
Should I use the DSM clone utility to replace the old existing drive with a new drive? If so, is it okay to remove the old drive in bay 1 and insert the new drive in bay 1? If so, can RAID 1 be used in a single storage pool that's mirrored between 2 drives? If so, is the next step to configure RAID 1 or to configure the storage pool? How should the storage pool be configured? This is where I'm confused. Please advise. Thanks in advance
The NAS has 2 HDD bays. One of them has a 4TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD. The other bay is vacant. RAID is not configured.
I want to install 2 8TB Ironwolf Pro HDDs: one in each bay and use RAID 1 (the NAS doesn't support SHR). The existing HDD data is already extended SMART tested and fully backed up to a NTFS formatted external USB drive.
Here's my question regarding the order of operation:
I first plan to install a new drive into bay 2 and run an extended SMART test on it.
I then plan to use DSM clone the existing drive to the new drive.
I then plan to remove the existing old drive and move the new drive into bay 1.
I then plan to run some tests to ensure that the new NAS configuration is operating properly.
I then plan to install the other new drive into bay 2 and run an extended SMART test on it before I configure the NAS for RAID 1.
Now, here's my question assuming that all has went well up to this point:
Should I use the DSM clone utility to replace the old existing drive with a new drive? If so, is it okay to remove the old drive in bay 1 and insert the new drive in bay 1? If so, can RAID 1 be used in a single storage pool that's mirrored between 2 drives? If so, is the next step to configure RAID 1 or to configure the storage pool? How should the storage pool be configured? This is where I'm confused. Please advise. Thanks in advance