I just received my Linkstation QUAD LS-QL/R5 with firmware v1.05. After some searching on this forum I guess it's not an easy task to upgrade the 250's to 1TB's. If I had known the OS is on the drives I would not have bought this....
What's the best way to go about replacing all of the drives with 1TB's? I currently have no data to loose if that helps.
Each drive rebuild was about 4 hours. I just started the RAID config and it's going to take 24 hours to complete. This is beyond belief that is has to reverify each disk when changing the RAID config. All tolled 40 hours to swap out the drives. It reminds me of the old days (1990) when preparing a Novell 2.x system.
An option should be added to assume the disks are good and you just want to reconfig the array. Also a better way should be developed to get the OS image on new drives more quickly.
gquiring,
Sorry for the inconvenience in this scenario but if you want to keep the BOOT image on the drives this is one of the ways we recommend. The "OS" image isn't really the problem it's the BOOT image that tells the NAS what to do on startup (i.e. check all connections and see if a HDD is there and of course load the operating kernel). The way this is retained is by rebuilding the RAID so that the firmware stays and of course if you take out more than one HDD then the RAID (at least in a RAID 5 setting) fails.
Dustrega wrote:gquiring,
Sorry for the inconvenience in this scenario but if you want to keep the BOOT image on the drives this is one of the ways we recommend. The "OS" image isn't really the problem it's the BOOT image that tells the NAS what to do on startup (i.e. check all connections and see if a HDD is there and of course load the operating kernel). The way this is retained is by rebuilding the RAID so that the firmware stays and of course if you take out more than one HDD then the RAID (at least in a RAID 5 setting) fails.
What would happen if someone lost two drives? I know it's rare but it can happen. I know the data would be lost but how would get your NAS back up and running?
gquiring,
Usually, replacing the hard drives and booting to EM and attempting a firmware update. However, there are many scenarios in which a single HDD can be lost and other methods would need to be attempted.
So it sounds like when I create a new RAID I will need to backup all my existing data before creating a new RAID...