Adding Larger Drive to Synology NAS and creating 2 Volumes

[mattyg]

Hiya Guys

I've bought a 6tb Purple HDD to replace one of my 4, 2Tb HDD. It looked like I could just swap one with the 6tb and all would be good....HDD are in SHR showing 4tb.

I can add the 6tb and create an new Vol but the old vol 1 with now only 3x2tb says degraded (as expected) however I cant seem to change the "raid" config. So I've stuck the original 2tb back in and its doing a repair..

I Don't want to do a clean setup as I'll have to reinstall all my CCTV and set up all the motion detection etc again. But what I want is to have the new 6tb just for CCTV and then the other 3x2tb for backup photos and some important work files...


Help me work out what to do guys...

Ta
Matt

 

[mattyg]

Ok Clean install it is then.
Cheers guys

 

[mattyg]

Is there a way to speed up copying from my existing drives to the new 6tb... Its in Kb/s



Ok its starting to get better.. 16 mb/s jumping to 40 ish...Still saying 22hrs to transfer 2tb....

 

[mattyg]

If there are lots of small files they will take longer.

Yeah all the last 2 weeks of CCTV footage broken up into 30 min segments. I've deleted them now..I'm sure I would have noticed whether I need to keep them or not.

Its since been doing a Parity check for over 12 hours.

 

[mattyg]

CCTV all back up and running. Just need to adjust the motion detection alerts now...Its a bit sensitive in areas.

Also backing up Dropbox to the NAS. I've done that Via drag and drop before letting it Sync over Internet.