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Fomatting Drives

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:03 pm
by tadgh99
Hi,

Just bought an AS3102T-v2 (moving from a DLink DNS-325). I want to move the drives across to the Asustor.

I realise that will mean losing all the data, but I've backed it all up and wiped the drives.

My question is, what do I need to prepare the hard drives for installation? I've removed the previous RAID flags and the drives are now format free and unallocated.

Do I need to re-format them (Ext2/3/4, BTRF) or just place them in the NAS and run the initialisation?

Thanks in advance

Re: Fomatting Drives

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:55 pm
by orion
Simply put your disks into NAS, then power NAS on.
Use Asustor Control Center software in PC to find NAS, launch a browser, follow the initialization wizard.

Re: Fomatting Drives

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:39 pm
by tadgh99
Thanks, really appreciate the quick reply...