I recently purchased a refurb 1TB Linkstation Live Duo from Newegg only to find out that Newegg's advertising was misleading and this is not two 500GB drives but the version with a single Terabyte drive. Then I plug it in to find it DOA, so I called Buffalo and they were willing to replace it.
While waiting for my new NAS I ordered two 500GB drives because the whole purpose of my purchase here is RAID 1 only to find out that Buffalo decided to install the NAS OS to the stupid drive itself and the technician with Buffalo who I found out later got canned tells me that Buffalo offered no options for getting the OS on two completely new drives.
So, while fuming and waiting 48 hours for the supervisor callback that never came I decided I would see if I couldn't prove the tech wrong. Here's how I did it:
- Install the original drive (in this case 1TB) in Bay 1 with one of the two new drives and setup a RAID 1. The result is that it will copy the OS and setup the RAID as the size of the smaller of the two drives.
- Once complete, shut down the NAS then pull the 1TB drive and install the 500GB drive into bay 1 with the second blank 500GB drive.
- Startup the NAS and proceed to the OS which has now been copied to the 500GB drive and it works perfectly. You will have to either recover the RAID 1 array or just wipe the whole thing and start over in which the OS will remain and problem solved.
So, mr Buffalo Tech Technician... you're wrong, it is possible.
congratz! if you had read my response to your other post you should of realized its possible!
http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/Install-two-new-drives-to-Linkstation-Duo/m-p/109208