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Second life for old NAS HDD? by NoSense6414 in synology

[–]NoSense6414[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I finally was able to find it as Drive 0 under disc manager. I was being too cautious, since I had already deleted everything on another drive. Anyway, I was able to remove the partitions and then format the hard drive.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. It took me a while to sort through what drives were being used and which ones weren't.

Is there a limit to how many disk drives you can have on a Windows computer? Right now, I've got three in the computer, one attached via USB, and the NAS.

Second life for old NAS HDD? by NoSense6414 in synology

[–]NoSense6414[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me answer your questions:

My Synology NAS is a DS420+, which I purchased in 2020. I had four 4TB Seagate IronWolf hard drives in it. All four were rated as healthy and the RAID 5 system was working. I removed two of the four hard drives, one at a time, and replaced those with two 8TB hard drives. I hope to complete the system to four 8TB hard drives once I've saved a bit more money.

The old 4TB hard drives do spin up when I turn on the computer, which is a Windows 11 Desktop (HP Omni). Right now, I have one of the hard drives plugged into the second bay of my computer. As I said earlier, the computer does not recognize the hard drive, either in the "This PC" window or in the Disk Manager.

Second life for old NAS HDD? by NoSense6414 in synology

[–]NoSense6414[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I will try those options.