How to upgrade Buffalo Terastation

[gulbir1313]

Hi There,

I need some assistance with upgrading my Tera Station here at work. We have a 8 TB terastation with 8 bays.
Each bay has 1 TB hard drive installed. I would like to upgrade my terastation with 4 TB hard drive in each bay that will give us 32 TB space. The Tera Station is on the network right now. However I understand that I would have to backup my files before upgrading my TeraStation.

I have couple of concerns and questions before I do my upgrade:

1. Currently the partition we are using is RAID 10, and we would like to use this in future as well. So in order to keep using this partition do we have to upgrade all the drives with similar capacity? (I read on a forum where they said you cannot use different capacity hard drives with certain RAID partitions. For ex: 4 bays have 4 TB hard drive and other 4 bays have 2 TB hard drive).

2. How do I upgrade my terastation. Can I shut it down, put all the new hard drives into it and then turn it on and press the function button? Or do I have to install the hard drives one by one.

3. Are there any other things that I should be concerned about?
Please advise. Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Y0GI]

The first thing that I would be concerned with is what is the max. HDD size supported by the Terrastation? It may choke on 4 TB HDDs.

Yogi

 

[TyrOd]

The first thing that I would be concerned with is what is the max. HDD size supported by the Terrastation? It may choke on 4 TB HDDs.

Yogi

The second thing I would be concerned about is that You're not putting consumer drives in this.

I expect you're using NAS/Enterprise drives and have an adequate backup scheme somewhere?