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Synology replace drive with smaller To replace the old drives or add new ones, you will have to use drives equal or greater than 1TB. Replaced the first 18TB drive by "Disabling drive", sending my array in degraded mode (no worries with SHR-2), then popped out the 18TB drive, and in an 8TB drive, and the array repaired itself and ran a data-scrubbing. , 500GB) cannot be added to the existing SHR (or Classic RAID) volume. See full list on kb. com May 31, 2020 · OK, so hats off to Synology, it appears possible to replace the largest drive in SHR-1 with a drive of the next largest size. I would like to move the data to the SSD and keep DSM running without having to configure again the whole box. I started the repair process to add the new drive to the system and about half-way through it failed with bad sectors. Will update this thread with the results of the repair, but it's looking to work the way I hoped it would. Power off your Synology NAS. To replace drives: Launch Storage Manager. In the steps below, we will provide an example of replacing the drives of an SHR storage pool. Replace Drive to Expand Storage Capacity. Apr 25, 2017 · Due to performance issues with the hard disk that hosts volume1, I am seeking for a solution to replace it with a SSD that is smaller. Below is from Synology: Does an already-created SHR volume accept drives of smaller capacity? Suppose your SHR volume is built on 1TB drives. synology. . Should be over by tomorrow lunch. All was done in less than 24 hours for the first drive. There is only 200gB data on a 1TB partition/disk and the target SSD is 400gB. Go to Storage Pool to see which existing drive is the smallest. (Skip this step if your Synology NAS supports hot-swapping. ) Jan 23, 2017 · One of the four drives in my DS413j failed, so I replaced it with a larger one (the original was 1tb, the replacement is 2tb). A smaller drive (e. Second drive is repairing right now. I don't have a drive of the same or larger size to replace the failed drive with. I pulled the (only) 4TB drive and it says I only require a 3TB to replace it. g. opyah oeqq ojc posn fbidf becva jkcmsmq vjyoehwj ybwqcx kukqeod