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: upgrading/replacing hard drive LS-WVLC28
: BillRiggs November 30, 2018, 11:17:46 AM

One of my 3TB seagate drives failed so I purchased a 4TB replacement drive but the buffalo will not format it. The format option is greyed out. My assumption that as long as I replaced the failed drive with a 3TB or bigger that it would work properly. Any ideas??  Feel free to email me direct.

: Re: upgrading/replacing hard drive LS-WVLC28
: davo November 30, 2018, 12:13:13 PM

Do you have a RAID setup? If so what mode?

: Re: upgrading/replacing hard drive LS-WVLC28
: BillRiggs November 30, 2018, 12:47:10 PM

Raid array 1 , just one drive copying the other. I have 1 3TB hd and am using a new 4TB hd to start upgrading my drive storage so that if and when the 3TB fails, I will replace that one with a 4tb drive also.

: Re: upgrading/replacing hard drive LS-WVLC28
: oxygen8 November 30, 2018, 05:04:00 PM

http://forum.nas-hilfe.de/buffalo-technology-nas-anleitungen/raid-eine-festplatte-kann-nicht-formatiert-werden-t2547.html

: Re: upgrading/replacing hard drive LS-WVLC28
: davo November 30, 2018, 06:11:15 PM

"RAID Array 1" is the name of the array, not the RAID mode, can you still access the data?

: Re: upgrading/replacing hard drive LS-WVLC28
: BillRiggs November 30, 2018, 10:51:01 PM

Yes, I can on the remaining drive. One drive was mirroring the other.

: Re: upgrading/replacing hard drive LS-WVLC28
: BillRiggs December 01, 2018, 11:06:21 PM

Never mind, I found the issue, I had to rebuild the array with the new hard drive. That seemed to take care of the problem.