Synology adding HDDs

utajoker · 29 Mar 2016 at 19:48

Hi

I have a Synology DS215+.

It had a 1TB WD RED in it and earlier today i put in a 2TB WD RED.

I did the expand storage wizard and have added the drive. It has installed and is showing two drives, 1TB and 2TB, however, my storage is still only 1TB.

I can't see any options to use the storage or merge the two drives or anything like that.

How do i start using the extra space?

I did have 80kb of space left before i put the drive in, this has gone up to 1.7mb after.

utajoker · 29 Mar 2016 at 21:34

it is indeed set up as SHR, how do i change this?

Currently repairing the drive as i turned it off and took the new drive out and turned it back on, it didn't like this.

If i change it to one large volume will i have to format to this and lose all my data?

utajoker · 30 Mar 2016 at 16:45

if i format, will it delete everything and be like a fresh start on the synology?

Or will it keep the OS setup and all my package settings.

Or can i back up my applications?

I don't fancy having to set up all my apps again.

utajoker · 31 Mar 2016 at 19:36

i want to use the max space i can, no backup.

so i want 3gb.

everything on there can be replaced so i will just back up what i can and format it.

a pain and would have liked to avoid it but it can be my saturday plan.