Synology help

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Hi guys

Just got a new synology 215j and i think it may be faulty. I have 2x 3tb wd reds in it setup as raid 0 and whenever i transfer any data to the drives it makes a horrible noise almost like a vibration noise. I have since mounted one of the hard drives in an external caddie and hooked it up to my windows laptop, the disk is now showing as 2 separate disks and i dont know how to get it back to one. It seems it is being seen as 2 separate volumes.

Any idea how to get this disk back to showing as 1 3tb disk rather than 1 at 2048gb and the other at 746gb. I have tried creating the volume on one and then trying to extend it using the remainder 746gb disk its showing but it just keeps throwing up an error

Thinking of RMA'ing the synology now as well
 
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The partitioning issue is almost certainly down to Windows not being able to cope with partitions larger than 2tb when formatted using MBR. You'll need to convert the disk to GPT in disk management (found in control panel, administrative tools, computer management - or just type 'disk management' in the run box)
 
Hi mate,

I have just checked and both volumes are indeed gpt as the only option i get when i right click on them in computer management is convert to mbr or convert to dynamic. Could it be a limition on my laptop that wont show any drives larger than 3tb? If i throw the drive back into the synology then it shows as 3tb just fine
 
Why raid 0? that's crazy in a NAS.

Just use SHR.

Check each drive is secured properly regarding vibration..

Removing one drive from the raid will kill the raid as it's raid0
 
Yea I know it's a kinda crazy setup but I have everything backed up to an external usb drive. When I removed one of the drives it was beeping at me like crazy! I just wanted all my 6tb available to me as one drive.

I have been looking at the ds216 play as a replacement unit as I have sent the ds215j back. I threw an old 500gb drive in there and the same grinding vibration noise was still there. I put my wd reds in my caddy and transferred some files onto them and there was no noise at all so must have been coming from the synology box. Still thinking if I should go for a 4 bay nas but think it may be overkill. I don't need anything to high spec like transcoding as I have a small home built server that will be doing all the grunt work if required.
 
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