Hello - apologies if this has been asked elsewhere. I've searched but can't see an answer. Even in the FAQ's.
I have a TS-210 with 2 x 1TB drives in Raid mirroring, firmware 4.0.2. I'd like replace both drives with 2TB drives to increase capacity. Drive health is ok. Is there an auto migration path to do this? If not, what's the best way to go about this?
Thanks,
Stu
Drive upgrade on TS-210
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Re: Drive upgrade on TS-210
Check out the Expand Capacity (Online RAID Capacity Expansion) section of the fine manual.stulandr wrote:Hello - apologies if this has been asked elsewhere. I've searched but can't see an answer. Even in the FAQ's.
I have a TS-210 with 2 x 1TB drives in Raid mirroring, firmware 4.0.2. I'd like replace both drives with 2TB drives to increase capacity. Drive health is ok. Is there an auto migration path to do this? If not, what's the best way to go about this?
Thanks,
Stu
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Re: Drive upgrade on TS-210
Excellent - thanks Patrick
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Re: Drive upgrade on TS-210
Unfortunately this article doesn't help - I have a TS-210:
*Online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery are not supported by one-bay NAS models, TS-210, and TS-212.
*Online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery are not supported by one-bay NAS models, TS-210, and TS-212.
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Sorry for the bad information. Yes, you are correct a TS-210 would be an exception. Sorry about that.stulandr wrote:Unfortunately this article doesn't help - I have a TS-210:
*Online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery are not supported by one-bay NAS models, TS-210, and TS-212.
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Re: Drive upgrade on TS-210
ok - so any thoughts on how I should go about this?
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Submit a ticket with the QNAP Helpdeskstulandr wrote:ok - so any thoughts on how I should go about this?
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Re: Drive upgrade on TS-210
I logged with support - here is the reply for future reference:
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due to expansion function didn't support on TS-210, so you can only backup all data, then initial nas again with 2 new 2T disks.
you can use steps bellow to initial nas
please follow steps bello to initial you nas
download Qfinder and install your pc
Qfinder http://download.qnap.com/Storage/Utilit ... 2.0218.exe
please follow steps bellow to initial your nas.
1. Power off the NAS. Remove all HDD
2. Power on the NAS without any HDD
3. After a short beep and a long beep, run QNAP Finder, it will find the NAS and its IP, (If you do not hear a short beep followed by a long beep, please contact us.)
4. Use QNAP Finder to locate NAS
5. double click nas in Qfinder and follow the wiard steps by steps go to web browser and you will see the web page told you there is no disk on nas
6. Hot-plug the HDD back to the NAS one by one,wait till all disks led solid green (not flashing)
7. continue quick config page to config NAS. then you suppose to initial your nas correctly
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David.Chang
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due to expansion function didn't support on TS-210, so you can only backup all data, then initial nas again with 2 new 2T disks.
you can use steps bellow to initial nas
please follow steps bello to initial you nas
download Qfinder and install your pc
Qfinder http://download.qnap.com/Storage/Utilit ... 2.0218.exe
please follow steps bellow to initial your nas.
1. Power off the NAS. Remove all HDD
2. Power on the NAS without any HDD
3. After a short beep and a long beep, run QNAP Finder, it will find the NAS and its IP, (If you do not hear a short beep followed by a long beep, please contact us.)
4. Use QNAP Finder to locate NAS
5. double click nas in Qfinder and follow the wiard steps by steps go to web browser and you will see the web page told you there is no disk on nas
6. Hot-plug the HDD back to the NAS one by one,wait till all disks led solid green (not flashing)
7. continue quick config page to config NAS. then you suppose to initial your nas correctly
Regards
David.Chang
QNAP Systems, Inc.
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Re: Drive upgrade on TS-210
Hi stulandr,
not sure I understand what Support is telling us here. Why would one has to initialise the NAS if only new HDDs are being installed.
The most logical process would be to ...
1) power down the NAS
2) replace one drive
3) fire up the NAS and let it rebuild the raid
4) once the raid is ready shut down NAS
5) replace the second disk
6) power on NAS / new rebuild starts
7) once raid is up again expand to new size
Job done!
Any idea why QNAP Support is asking to re-initialise the whole NAS to do this HDD upgrade?
Kind regards
not sure I understand what Support is telling us here. Why would one has to initialise the NAS if only new HDDs are being installed.
The most logical process would be to ...
1) power down the NAS
2) replace one drive
3) fire up the NAS and let it rebuild the raid
4) once the raid is ready shut down NAS
5) replace the second disk
6) power on NAS / new rebuild starts
7) once raid is up again expand to new size
Job done!
Any idea why QNAP Support is asking to re-initialise the whole NAS to do this HDD upgrade?
Kind regards
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Re: Drive upgrade on TS-210
Hi svildes - I'm not sure that "expand to new size" functionality is available on a TS-210.
I'm guessing then it is just like setting up the NAS from scratch and copying across the data from the original disks.
I'm guessing then it is just like setting up the NAS from scratch and copying across the data from the original disks.