Spare Terastation 1200DS collecting dust at the office, currenly has 2 4tb drives. Can i just order any NAS capable 8tb drives and use them? The Buffalo site makes it seem like you have to get the drive from them.
TIA!
Spare Terastation 1200DS collecting dust at the office, currenly has 2 4tb drives. Can i just order any NAS capable 8tb drives and use them? The Buffalo site makes it seem like you have to get the drive from them.
TIA!
u/monsterzro_nyc,
> The Buffalo site makes it seem like you have to get the drive from them
You don’t have to get the drive from BuffaloTech - you can use your own drive (and/or brand of HDD)
About Capacity
as other redditors already pointed out (see u/hlloyge and u/avael273’s comments), the issue with Buffalo, is that the firmware on their products will ‘limit’ the maximum size of the drive that you can use.
In the case of the of the Terastation 1200DS that capacity is up to 4TB, so a max of 2x4TB (https://www.buffalo-technology.com/productpage/terastation-1200ds/)
With that said, there are forums with plenty postings that show you how you can manually extend the capacity of your RAID Array, but that involves you actually taking those drives out of the enclosure, plugging into another board, booting into linus, aka having to load those drives in linux and manually extend the size of your built RAID array to match the maximum capacity of your phisical drives. After you’ve done that, then you can put those HDDs back into your Terastation 1200DS and boot them up and your Terastation 1200DS will boot, see the drives, list their ‘new’ capacity and work just as if nothing happened.
Best Regards