Hello everyone

New member here with a question about re-use of HDD


Situation is I have upgraded to a 4bay 918+ from a 2 bay 214 Play

For a number of reasons the migration route ended up being an old school copy -the 214 has not been used for anything fancy so I just needed to move the data across and I duplicated the folder structure albeit under a new admin/user account etc

So I now have a 918+ with 2 new 4Tb drives in SHR and the same data as the 214 Play which still has the old 4Tb drives also in SHR

The drives in the 214 are only about a year old and SMART testing OK so I want to add them to the 918+ as a 3rd and 4th drive 

My question is how can I re-use them.  Can I just remove them one by one from the 214 and insert them into the 918+ without doing anything first?

Would the 918 will see each as a new drive and will reformat them and then add them to the SHR so it effectively goes from a mirrored RAID 1 to RAID5?

As they are currently in an SHR array, albeit a mirror, is that going to be a problem in the new NAS?

I have searched for an answer without success and Google etc only really deals with data migration, not re-use of hard disks that were in an array

Thanks in advance

Hi there,

I'm in the creative field and need a NAS that can handle a bunch of different tasks. I need to store and back up my photos, videos, and various work documents. I also want to back up my Mac and iOS devices. On top of that, I'm looking to host a website through the NAS since I do web design, and I'd love to set up a library for streaming videos and music at home.

Could you recommend some NAS models that would fit these needs, especially ones that are easy to use, scalable, and offer good streaming quality?

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Hi Thank you for providing this services. This is my first time being in contact with you.
I have an arhcitecture firm i started 5 years ago.
I started off with DS223J 2 Bay. This had a fault so i upgrade about a year ago to DS224+
i have this nas synced with a second nas at my house for backup.
in both nas i have 2 8tb hard drives.
the one in the office (DS224+) is almost full.
should i upgrade to a larger nas or buy an extension pack?
i have seen a few extension packs.
i noticed one is a 5 bay. how does this work with raid set up.
thank you

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After change the internet provider. I can not access my DS920+ from outside of the local network. I include some screenshots below. 

Can anyone help me to fixed this? Thanks for all your help.

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Dan

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