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My Office just got the 1TB version of the subject line above. I need to expand the storage to 4TB and have changed the 4 250GB HDDs for 4 1TB HDDs. Which brings me to the follwing questions:

I'm using the same steps for Windows XP and Windows Vista. I know that XP will not recognize the 4TB setting from an external drive so I'm moving onto my Vista machine.

1) Can I actually expand the storage capacity beyond 1TB?

2) Why does my machine crash whenever I configure the RAID setup? Every single time I get a blue screen. I have looked up on Device Manager there's no ! flags.

Thanks for your help.

Joe

1.) That isn't supported, but it might work.

2.) Make sure you're connecting via USB, not eSATA. the raid setup software will only work with USB, as eSATA does not have a control channel.

I've installed four 2tb WD drives into my quattro and using the USB to conenct, i managed to raid it to raid 5.

Do not use the e-sata for resyncing of raid, it will never work.

I've tried it many ttimes before using USB to do it.

Yes I've been using USB the entire time.

I've been trying to get the RAID 5 and right after I select the RAID5 and starts reading I get the blue screen and restart.

I've been trying to get firmware updates but the model is not listed on the website: HD-QSTU2/R5

Thanks for your replies and help

I just wrote 4 paragraphs of information and my message did not go through because my link was not "authenticated"...

Let's see if I can recreate everything again without a ban.

The blue screen lasts for only a couple of seconds. I have noticed a memory dump process at the bottom of the screen. I have also noticed that Drive 1 has a flashing red light while the rest of the drives have a green light. I am giving up on the discontinued 1TB model and returning it.

However, I received the 2TB model today and when I tried to change the RAID configuration (Yes with a USB cable) on my XP machine the computer restarted at the Detecting/Formating drives stage. Just a restart no blue screen. I changed the station into my Vista machine and I was able to change the configuration setting and I still have a red light for drive 1 while the rest of the drives are green. At the configuration screen the 4 drives are Orange (Yes the factory drives) and drive 1 has "Rebuilding" in (parenthesis). All drives with the same drive letter on a RAID 5 mode. I navigated to the File->Information Section and it says rebuilding at 13% finished.

Will the light change to green after it rebuilds? Will the station work fine?Can I just drop it from the window of my 8th floor office and follow it please.:robotmad:

Thanks.

Well... it did and it didn't. This is the 2TB Station

I was able to change the configuration but  it had some problems with the detecting/formatting process. It did not always recognize the drive after deteting and doing the transition into formatting. I had to force the detection by turning the Station off/on during this process (On my Vista Machine). And still I had to run "ntfsfix" in Linux to finish the formatting process.

Is this normal? Or am I missing a step in the process?

Thanks