Operating System Location

[Delgado]

Hello everybody,
I'm new here and I hope I have a very simple question. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a clear answer yet.

I am interested in the Lockerstor 4 (AS6604T). This has an 8GB flash memory. Is the operating system on it there? So the ADM? And the ADM is a Linux based operating system?

I currently still have a Synology NAS and have often been annoyed that the operating system is on the first partition of the first hard drive and I hope that is not the case with ASUS. That makes a simple hard drive upgrade more difficult.

Greetings from Berlin
Dirk

[orion]

I am interested in the Lockerstor 4 (AS6604T). This has an 8GB flash memory. Is the operating system on it there? So the ADM? And the ADM is a Linux based operating system?

All NAS include a flash device that stores basic ADM function image. It's only for boot-up and installation. Full ADM should store onto each disk. There is one partition that mirrors to every disk. The good thing is that ADM won't be impacted when you remove / lost most of disks.

[Delgado]

Hi orion,
thanks for your answer.

An example, just so I know I understood you correctly. I have a 2-bay NAS with 2*4TB hard drives and I want to upgrade to 2*8TB. If I take out the old hard drives and replace them with the new ones, I have to reinstall the ADM and have to redo all settings and App-installations. Is this correct? Or is there a way to take the ADM and settings from the old disks? Do you understand what I mean?

[father.mande]

Hi,
have a look to Asustor knowledge base and Asustor College

here a link for disk capacity extension : https://www.asustor.com/online/College_topic?topic=352

Philippe.

[orion]

An example, just so I know I understood you correctly. I have a 2-bay NAS with 2*4TB hard drives and I want to upgrade to 2*8TB. If I take out the old hard drives and replace them with the new ones, I have to reinstall the ADM and have to redo all settings and App-installations. Is this correct? Or is there a way to take the ADM and settings from the old disks?

No, you don't need to re-install ADM and redo all settings. ADM supports on-line capacity expansion if you follow their rule. You don't even shutdown NAS. You can still access your data when expanding. The detailed information is on the link that Philippe (father.mande) provided.

[Delgado]

Hello Philippe, hello orion,
thank you very much for your help. The explanations in ASUSTOR College are really good and this is exactly what I was looking for. I will also have a look at the others.

But there is one thing I still have. The hard disk extensions explained there only work if they are in a raid network. Raid-1, -5, -6 and -10 were listed.

How do I proceed if I have a 2-bay NAS with two single volumes (no raid) and want to replace a hard disk?
How do I get the ADM and the installed apps with all my settings on the new hard disk?

Greetings
Dirk

[Nazar78]

IIRC for non-raid you'll need to clone the hdd then expand the cloned hdd partition using the conventional way like you would do with a laptop/PC. You can achieve this with live USB on the NAS but unofficially supported.

[orion]

As Nazar78 described, that should be painful less. But you'll need some skills.
By the way, ADM is located onto each disk. But the installed applications are located onto volume1 which is one of your disks (2 single non-RAID volume).