Synology DiskStation User Manual page 31

 Go to
Information > Status, and check the
System Information" on Page 162 for more information.)
 Check the LED indicators on your DiskStation. (See the Quick Installation Guide that comes with your
installation disc for more information.)
2 Pull out the hard drive tray to replace the crashed disk with a new one.
Note: The replacement hard drive size must be larger or equal to the size of the smallest disk in the volume or Disk
Group.
To repair a volume or Disk Group:
1 Click the Volume or Disk Group
2 Click Manage.
3 Select Repair and follow the wizard to repair the volume or Disk Group.
Note:
 The status of the repairing hard drive must be
 If your volume is created by allocating partial space on a Disk Group (see "Create a Volume by Allocating Partial
Space on a Disk Group" on Page 29 for more information), you need to repair its Disk Group.
Change RAID Type
If you have created a Basic, RAID 1 or RAID 5 volume or Disk Group, you could add a new drive to the
Synology DiskStation, and then use Storage Manager to change the RAID type.
Available RAID type change includes:
 Basic to RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 5+Spare
 RAID 1 to RAID 5 or RAID 5+Spare
 Add mirror disk to RAID 1
 RAID 5 to RAID 5+Spare or RAID 6
 RAID 5+Spare to RAID 6
To change the RAID type:
1 Click the Volume or Disk Group
2 Select the volume or Disk Group you want to change.
3 Click Manage.
4 Choose Change RAID type
Note:
 The status of the volume or Disk Group must be normal.
 The status of the added drive must be
 If you want to change the RAID type, enough number of hard drives for the new type is required. See
"Synology DiskStation Supported RAID Types" on Page 27 for the required amount of disks for the RAID type.
 The size of the replacement hard drive must be larger than the smallest disk size of the volume or Disk Group.
Expand a Volume or Disk Group
You can expand the storage capacity of a volume or Disk Group.
Expand a Volume by Changing Volume Size
If your volume is created by allocating partial space on a Disk Group, you can do the following to expand the
volume.
To expand a volume by changing volume size:
1 Under the Volume tab, click the volume you want to expand.
2 Click Edit.
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status column in the
tab.
Initialized or
tab.
and follow the wizard to complete the setup.
Initialized or Not Initialized.
Synology DiskStation User's Guide
Hard disk(s) section. (See "Check
Not Initialized.
Based on DSM 4.1