04-02-2024, 02:08 PM
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
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