Originally Posted by lewinb
I have an n2100 which until now, has had two 500 GB drives in RAID1. One failed, and since I have to buy a new drive anyway, I would like to expand the raid onto two 1 TB drives. As far as I can tell there is NO upgrade path for installing larger drives. WTF?!
Do I seriously have to buy ANOTHER drive to backup to, (never mind the huge amount of time that it would take to copy 500 GB over the network), then copy all the data back once the new 1 TB RAID1 is built? Ridiculous!!!
Thecus, I know the 5200 has this capability, so what exactly is the upgrade path for the 2100? There should be a module (or better yet, a built-in functionality) for this. If there is, I can't find it. Do you seriously expect that people will never want to swap out their drives for larger ones?
Thecus, please advise what the best process is for this. Thank you.
The 5200 is the only device with Raid-Grow ability. So yes, you will have to re-format to increase your storage capacity. So restore the NAS from your backups. You *do* back up?