I'm trying to upgrade my 4-bay DS918+ from using just 1x 10TB drive to setting up a 3x 10TB SHR RAID, plus use an old 2-bay DS716+ as a backup device. I only set the 918 up with one drive at the start as money was tighter and I thought I could build a RAID array over time, no realising I had to format the drives to do this
To get this upgrade going, I was planning to remove my current single drive and setup the 918 fresh with 3 new drives and build the RAID array that way. Then I was hoping to re-insert my original drive so that I can just copy over my data to the new pool. Will this work; will the NAS detect the original drive as a new storage pool or will I get a conflict as that original drive will have the OS loaded on it from the current setup?
If I can do it this way, that would save me having to setup the 716 first, copy all my data across (~8TB), setup the RAID in the 918 and then copy the data back.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
To get this upgrade going, I was planning to remove my current single drive and setup the 918 fresh with 3 new drives and build the RAID array that way. Then I was hoping to re-insert my original drive so that I can just copy over my data to the new pool. Will this work; will the NAS detect the original drive as a new storage pool or will I get a conflict as that original drive will have the OS loaded on it from the current setup?
If I can do it this way, that would save me having to setup the 716 first, copy all my data across (~8TB), setup the RAID in the 918 and then copy the data back.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.