I ordered a Synology DS212j yesterday and I have a few questions I'd like to get out of the way before I get my hands on it. Basically, I have WD Elements 2TB formatted with NTFS at the moment and I'm wondering if I could simply yank the drive from that, put it in the DS and that'd be it ready to go? Or would the DS need to reformat the drive to use it? It's just that with HDD prices being the way they currently are, I don't fancy buying another drive and switching to ext3/4 just yet.
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Damn. Will have to connect my current one to the Syn's USB until I can get another drive then. ~£140 to 2TB is ridiculous.
EDIT: Would it reformat even if the drive's already on ext4? Wondering if I could turn the unused space into ext4, transfer the files to the new partition, then erase the NTFS partition completely. Would the drive be okay with that or is it literally "new drive - reformat"?
EDIT2: Nevermind, have been told that the only thing I can put in there without it reformatting is a disk from another Syn NAS.
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