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Title: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: Dedos on March 03, 2009, 11:48:01 PM

Hello,

I have a TS-0.6TGL/R5

Can I increase the space by purchasing 4 x 250 GB SATA drives for this case? What are my limitations?

Thank you.

Title: Re: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: Dedos on March 07, 2009, 09:21:54 AM

can anyone lead me in the right direction?

Title: Re: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: Jotin on March 07, 2009, 02:07:57 PM

That would be the max size you could put in there. Buffalo support will not support upgrading the hard drives though. Once you replace the drives, flash the firmware.

Title: Re: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: Dedos on March 07, 2009, 08:34:36 PM

Thank you Penguin,

When you say re-flash, do I reflash it with 1.01?

thanks again for your time.

Title: Re: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: Dedos on March 07, 2009, 09:43:39 PM

Sorry, I meant to say "When you say flash, do you mean reflash with firmware 1.01?

thanks.

Title: Re: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: Colin137 on March 14, 2009, 12:45:54 PM

You can just use the latest firmware. You may need to update it several times. The original TS Pro supports up to 500 GB drives.

Title: Re: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: Dedos on April 01, 2009, 12:48:28 PM

Thank you for the reply. I got my 4 x 250 and flashed it several times. The disks are being shown as 232GB when I'm about to create a RAID 5 ARRAY which is good BUT when I look at them under Driver properties, it only read them @ 194GB. When I RAID 5, it shows a total of 556.8GB. Very odd. I tried DEBUG mode when flashing, formatting everything including user data and stuff.

Am I doing something wrong? I'm using the 1.04 firmware.

Thank you in advance.

-D

Title: Re: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: straightpipe on April 01, 2009, 02:17:33 PM

the 250's should be showing as 232GB. 232GBx4 drives in RAID 5 provides 3x232Gb of usuable space, so you should be seeing something closer to 696GB.

Sounds like they got formatted at 194GB instead of full capacity. You should be able to delete the array and rebuild it at full capacity.

Title: Re: Hard drive upgrade
Post by: Colin137 on April 01, 2009, 07:39:13 PM

That IS very strange. If that doesn't work, try reformatting all the drives on a computer.

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