Upgrading the hard disk on LS-WVL/E.

[MaMister]

Hi all, currently I have a LS-WVL/E with 2 x1TB WD green, firmware 1.52.

 

I would like to upgrade both to  2 x 2TB.

 

I was thinking of :

 

1. Removing no. 2 hard disk and replace with 2TB, let it rebuild the raid 1

2. After done, remove no. 1 hard disk and replace with the other 2TB, let it rebuild the raid 1

 

will I be able to do it this way without loosing any settings or data?

[MaMister]

Yep I know, I just wondering if this method will work as it really save lots of trouble like backup 1TB and copy back 1TB of data via network, usb or SATA...

[dach]

I don't think it will work either.  But you can try it... If it is designed robust, I don't think you should lose your data either.

 

From what I know about how HDD work, if it even lets you do this and it "clones" the data on your 1 TB drive on to your new HDD, the 2 TB drive will simply end up behaving and looking like a 1TB drive. You'd need special utilities to extend the data partiton to use the extra space, which probably wouldn't be compatible with LS-WV anyway.

[davo]

This will work but will still only show the capacity of  the orignal HDD's. To show the new capacity you will need to delete and recreate the RAID once the 2 HDDs are restructured which will definately erase the data.

[MaMister]

Well, looks like no choice but to consider:

 

Transfer out and back using:

 

1. network connect to pc

2. USB external drive

3. Remove hard drive SATA direct to pc

 

Which the best?

 

I personally think option 3 is the best but too bad, using UFS explorer can only transfer out but cannot copy back am I right?