Solved Storage Threads

[bstinissen]

Hi,

We have an terrastation with 4 harddisks of 500GB.

We want to change those with 4 x 1 TB harddisks, is this possible?

w.k.r.

Bert

[davo]

Yes but it will void your warranty, power down the unit, insert 1 new drive into HDD1 slot, restructure the RAID array (this will take hours) Once the restructuring is complete power down the unit again, insert new drive into HDD2 slot and again restructure the RAID array. Do this with all 4 HDD, only when the 4th drive is restructured will it show the new capascity.

[chrish · Accepted solution]

It depends on the TS model.  If it is the earlier silver TeraStations, then no it is not possible.  The firmware can not handle the 1TB drives.

[kochrk]

I thought I would share what I have done to 4 TS-Live 2.0s, 1 TS-Live 1.0 and a TS-Pro II.

First upgrade to the latest firmware...

I used 4x Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EACS 1TB SATA and they are quiet and

fast. Some may argue to use the RE2 RAID Editions.

1. IMPORTANT: BACKUP ALL DATA from TS to external drives or another TS. Another

TS will be faster.

2. Delete all Data on TS (I deleted the shared folders)

3. Delete Raid Array

4. Turn off TS

5. Replace 2nd HD with new one (1TB)

6. Reboot TS

7. Format the new HD

8. Repeat Step 4 to 7 for the drives 3,4 and 1.

9. Restructure RAID array (RAID 0 will be pretty quick, RAID 5 or 10 will take

overnight. I never tried RAID 1)

10. Create new share folders and copy the data from the external drives (or 2nd

TS) back to your upgraded TS.

Let's all pray for a Sleep Mode in the upcoming Firmware.

[mjwilcox12]

Will the original array grow to the new size preserving my data, or will I need to copy it off and back anyways?

thanks,

Mike

[kochrk]

There's no way to 'grow' an array. (unless we are talking linux guru stuff). If you look at the first couple steps you have to delete the array, therefore the data.

[armagh1]

I am looking to get a terrastation 1T will I be able to increase the drive size beyound 1000gb

[Pieter]

I tried the suggestion on a fairly new TeraStation Live 4.0 with ver 2.14 firmware and upgraded to 6 Gig by using 4 x 1.5 Gig drives.

It worked perfectly.

Formating the drives made them available the system.

Thanks very much for helping with this. 

Pieter