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Adding new drives to a LinkStation 441

Started by martybrown, April 29, 2021, 10:00:06 AM

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My ten year old LinkStation has been running with just two 4tb drives. I'm concerned that someday, those Seagate drives will start failing, so I bought two more 4tb drives and installed them in slots 3 and 4.

I formatted the new drives, then set them up as Array 2 with Raid 1, thinking that I'd like to be able to keep them as separate network drives in case the old drives go south on me.

It's been ten years since I set up the original share folders so after reviewing the user guide, I cannot figure out how to access the new array to set up storage folders on the new array. The new drives show up in the Advanced Setup - Drives menu as Array 2, but I am unable to setup folders - only the Array 1 folders appear in the folder setup section.

What am I missing here? Am I wrong to use raid 1 on these new drives? Am I missing a step in accessing the new array?

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