DISCLAIMER Be aware that this will void your warranty and is only to be used as a last resort when you have no dashboard or SSH I am not responsible for any loss of data as a result of you following this guide PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK I own a MBLD 4TB and recent I found one of it’s hard drive h…

Has anyone else tried this and can confirm it’s working? I have the same situation

It worked for me, except the resize command failed due to an error, so I resorted to removing and then remaking the 4th partition on each drive, Drive A, select /dev/sda rm 4 mkpart primary 4624M 3001G Drive B, select /dev/sdb rm 4 mkpart primary 4624M 3001G Note I was replacing a defective…

Here’s what I ended up doing I connected the new drives directly to my PC using SATA I saw the 3TB partitions and a 1TB unallocated space. I deleted the 3TB partition and created a new partition along with the other 1TB making a new 4TB partition and formatted it to exFAT. All with Windows 10 dis…

This is kind of what happened to me with a MyBook Duo and mac OS, I had 2x 1TB Green drives and I updated with 2x 2TB Red drives I had in my NAS, I removed a disk and replaced with the bigger capacity one, rebuilt lasted a few hours, did the same with the second drive and same thing after a few hour…

First, thank you very much for posting this encouraging description! I would like to replace the original 3TB drives in my MBLD with 4TB or 6TB WD Red drives and preserve my user data. So, my concern arises at the point after resizing the partitions and rebooting the MBLD. Is the only solution to t…

Greetings Tang_Jianyu, First, thank you very much for taking time to describe this detail! I was so encouraged when I first read your post, because I have the exact same scenario - replaced my original Green 3TB drives with new Red 4TB drives. However, I have run into trouble at every turn, probl…

Thanks for posting this option! I had hoped to somehow preserve my data while expanding the primary partition. But the clear priority winner was to increase the capacity, even if at the expense of restoring all the data. So, when I finally reached an impasse searching for a way to preserve the dat…

WARNING! Zombie Thread resurrection. A big shout out and thanks to Tang_Jianyu & Alapha9. A drive in my 4TB MBLD failed. Fortunately it was configured for RAID1 but unfortunately trying to get a replacement drive of the same model as recommended by WD was nigh impossible thanks to the drives being…

I wound up doing what Alapha9 did, using parted to remove Partition 4 from each drive and then doing mkpart primary 4264M 4001G (I am using 4-TB drives). I did “■■■■ the errors, full steam ahead” , and then did a quick factory restore from the device webpage. This destroyed all my previous data an…

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