HDD Upgrade on Buffalo Terastation Live 1 TB

[wayne7497]

   

Ive got an old 1tb terastation live with 4 x 250gb Sata Drives in Ive out grown it and I have 4 x Samsung 750 Sata Srives here Though well Id try it No Luck...

 

Can it be Done and if so How ?

 

Many Thanks

 

Wayne 

[wayne7497]

   

Anyone At All Suggestions Know ????

 

Thanks Wayne

[kochrk]

   

Hi Wayne,

 

You can look at my post here.  I don't think Buffalo is against upgrading.  I always see that it will void your warranty but my guess is that your warranty is already gone.

 

http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0101&message.id=1338#M1338

 

Rudy

[BlueSky]

   I had no luck when trying to upgrade my TeraStation Pro v1.  I originally had 4-500GB drives and tried to install 4-1.5TB drives only to run into the 32-bit OS/hardware limitation of 2TB.  Oh, well, live and learn....  Good luck to you!

[jfourman]

   

I recently upgraded my 1TB Terastation Live with 4 x 1.5TB Drives. There are two methods to accomplish the upgrade. Make sure to upgrade your firmware to 2.14 before you begin:

 

1) This method retains the existing data. You need to be very technically proficient to attempt this. I would highly suggest a backup of your data even though this method is intended to preserve your data.

 

These two links provide instructions. I suggest you read these instructions thoroughly and make sure you understand each step prior to attempting this:

 

http://forum.buffalo.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=11321

 

http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Replacing_all_drives_in_a_Terastation_Live

 

2) This method is by far the easiest; but you will lose all of your existing data. This is the method that I chose since I had another Terastation Live to temporarily back up the data to. It took me less than an hour to upgrade my TS Live from 1TB raw to 6TB raw (Backup and Restore added 6-8 hours on either end). My new 6TB TS Live has been running flawlessly for a month now.

 

http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0101&message.id=1338&query.id=19937#M1338

 

Total cost for me was $268.00 for a manufacturer warranteed refurb 1TB TS Live purchased on eCost and 4 x $119.00 for the 1.5TB drives sale price from Newegg (total cost for 6TB TS Live = $744). Note that the Seagate 1.5TB drives required a firmware update prior to beginning this process. This is an issue with certain firmware versions of the Seagate drives and not relevant to this post.

 

Good luck! Backup, backup, backup

Message Edited by jfourman on 01-03-2009 09:07 AM

[kochrk]

   

Wow, that's great jfourman. I was wondering if anyone tried the procedure in my post, as I spent much time trying to figure it out with all the misc. posts I read on a few different forums.  What is further GREAT is that you did it with 1.5tb drives.  I am happy to hear that works because that is my next upgrade.

 

I hope the best to Wayne7497.

Message Edited by kochrk on 01-05-2009 05:37 PM

[liamfogarty]

   

Hey chaps,

 

I have an original Terastation  (HD-HTGLF12) - not the live one. Is it possible to ugprade this to 4 *1.5TB drives?

 

Also, the new drives should be SATA rather than SATA-II ?

 

thanks v much!

 

Liam 

[JoshC]

http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=SolvedStorageThreads&thread.id=2476

 

You should always look in the solved section :smileywink: