Upgrade your drives

[krunk]

If you want to place bigger hard drives, how do you proceed when you have them in RAID 1?
Simply remove the first one, insert a new and let the RAID rebuild?
After that, replace the second old hard disk?

[wengi]

Hi,


there seems to be no "easy" solution to keep data on the hdds: thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=wishlist&action=display&thread=2599

Backup your data to another hdd and start all over.

wengi

[krunk]

Thnx.

Strange that Thecus hasn't created a tool for this. A dump of the entire NAS (data and settings), so that you could restore it to a different one.

[devin1955]

I have the same question. I was originally going to copy the data, replace the drives, and copy it back, but someone here at my work had another suggestion.

Has anyone tried this? Replace one drive, rebuild the array, then pull that new drive out. Using a simple usb interface, connect it to a PC running Partition Magic (which I understand will recognize Linux partitions) and grow the partition to max size. Put it and the second new drive back into the nas and rebuild the array again.

Sounds like it would work to me...

[devin1955]

No comment? Nobody has experience upgrading drives?

[wengi]

Hi,

good idea. We need someone to test it....
There is no risk of data loss. The old drives will still be useable.

I have no other drives here.

Simply give it a try!

wengi

[devin1955]

I don't own a partitioning tool that's Linux partition compatible. If I knew this process would succeed, I'd get one though. Maybe I need to do some searching and see if there's a freebie out there that would work.

Still hoping someone has an answer.

[krunk]

You could be on to something.

Would it be possible to create a ghost image from a small drive, dump it back to a bigger drive, insert the big drive into the Thecus, add a second drive and create a mirror... ?