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Hello
I have been using a DS414j for years with 2 HDDs with 4 TB each (WD Red) in Raid 1 (mirrored) configuration.
Now I added two 8 TB HDDs - this is a 4 bay model.
My plan:
1) Convert the Raid 1 to Raid 5 (or something similar - recommendation?) using 4 HDDs. Of course, only 4 TB of each of the new HDDs will be used for this.
2) Put the rest of the free space in both 8 TB HDDs in a Raid 1 group.
Is this feasible?
If yes, any short hints about the procedure? (Give me the essential short hints, I will look up for details to learn more).
Sorry to say that I just do updates of the NAS software regularly but otherwise do not deal with the Disk Station Manager software, so I don't feel comfortable reorganizing the drives, as this puts all data at risk!
By the way, I would prefer executing point 2 first, so I would copy the data from the existing Raid 1 before converting, just in case the conversion fails.
I just noticed that for some reasong the old HDDs (4 TB nominal capacity) are being shown as 5,46 in size, but the 8 TB HDDs are shown with 7,3 TB. Is this due to an overall capacity limit of the DS414j? It should support 24 TB afaik.
Thanks in advance.
I have been using a DS414j for years with 2 HDDs with 4 TB each (WD Red) in Raid 1 (mirrored) configuration.
Now I added two 8 TB HDDs - this is a 4 bay model.
My plan:
1) Convert the Raid 1 to Raid 5 (or something similar - recommendation?) using 4 HDDs. Of course, only 4 TB of each of the new HDDs will be used for this.
2) Put the rest of the free space in both 8 TB HDDs in a Raid 1 group.
Is this feasible?
If yes, any short hints about the procedure? (Give me the essential short hints, I will look up for details to learn more).
Sorry to say that I just do updates of the NAS software regularly but otherwise do not deal with the Disk Station Manager software, so I don't feel comfortable reorganizing the drives, as this puts all data at risk!
By the way, I would prefer executing point 2 first, so I would copy the data from the existing Raid 1 before converting, just in case the conversion fails.
I just noticed that for some reasong the old HDDs (4 TB nominal capacity) are being shown as 5,46 in size, but the 8 TB HDDs are shown with 7,3 TB. Is this due to an overall capacity limit of the DS414j? It should support 24 TB afaik.
Thanks in advance.