AS3304T - no RAID, replace drive 1

[ivanyu]

I plan to use AS3304T with 4 HDDs, each as a separate volume, no raid at all, i.e. drive 1 as volume 1, drive 2 as volume 2, drive 3 as volume 3, drive 4 as volume 4.

I think ADM uses volume 1 to store the OS and all the installed app configs.

In case I need to replace drive 1, what is the procedure? I tried to look at FAQ but they all mention RAID configurations only.

In my case, would I simply remove volume 1 inside ADM, hot swap out drive 1, hot swap in new drive, and ADM will somehow know to reinstall OS?

Thank you for your advice.

[Nazar78]

The single drive volume is all along a RAID 1 configuration. ADM creates partitions for OS, SWAP and data for each disk you use. The OS and SWAP then gets mirrored to all the disks. Only your apps, its settings and data gets installed into volume1 for a single volume disk. You can create additional data shares on the rest of each disk which resides on their data partition.

So technically, you'll only lose the apps and its settings/data for volume1 if you were to replace it and ADM will still retain its system settings. Also take note that all the home users data are stored in volume1. Without RAID redundancy, you'll lose all of these as well.

[ivanyu]

Thank you for the detail explanation.

In terms of the actual steps replacing drive 1 (my volume 1), I will remove volume 1 from ADM storage manger, hot swap (with NAS running) out old drive, swap in new drive, re-create my volume 1, that should work?

[Nazar78]

You should use the wizard in the Storage Manager > Volume > Remove which will prompt you with important stuffs. It's advised to backup prior.