adapter from sata to ide on terastation

[Paolo Iozzino]

Hallo,
I' ve a Buffalo Terastation (old model with IDE disk).
My idea now is to change internal disks with 4 new disks (of 1TB
each). I was thinking to buy
SATA disk (I can't find IDE disk of 1TB).
I now there is an adapter from sata to ide. Do someone knows if is
possible to use this adapter
on Buffalo Terastation system ?

Thank's
Paolo

 

[GT]

Hallo,
I' ve a Buffalo Terastation (old model with IDE disk).
My idea now is to change internal disks with 4 new disks (of 1TB
each). I was thinking to buy
SATA disk (I can't find IDE disk of 1TB).
I now there is an adapter from sata to ide. Do someone knows if is
possible to use this adapter
on Buffalo Terastation system ?

The IDE to SATA adapter uses both primary and secondary channels of an IDE
port. I assume so your current 4 disk IDE setup consists of 2 IDE ports
(connectors) and 2 drives on each cable. In which case, your 4 disk IDE
setup would turn into a 2 disk SATA setup. I cannot say whether the adapter
would work or not, but my instinct says they should be fine - you can get
inline adapters that work in 2 directions, so I don't think the controller
or hard disk would know there is something between.

 

[Paul]

Are you certain it will support this capacity? If not, you
should check on this as it may not.

There is an answer in that forum link that Ken posted.

The Linux kernel used, limits the size of the array.
4 x 500GB IDE disks would be the ideal largest size.
And then, no adapter plugs are needed.

Paul

 

[Paolo Iozzino]

Paul this means there no way, also with a firmware upgrade ?

seems I' ve to take a new one ...

thank's to all for the replies.

 

[Paolo Iozzino]

I' ve found in the Buffalo NAS forum that is possible to ugrade FW in
order to increase HD size capaticity
I need to spend more time in order to see if is simple and if there
are no brick risks.

 

[Paul]

I' ve found in the Buffalo NAS forum that is possible to ugrade FW in
order to increase HD size capaticity
I need to spend more time in order to see if is simple and if there
are no brick risks.

Well, that is the thing to weigh. If the NAS is not critical to your
data, and you also have another backup copy, then the experiment may
be worthwhile and fun. But if you are trying to do an in-place
capacity upgrade, with live data, and installing a new Linux
kernel or whatever, then that would be quite a large risk.

There is an adapter here, from SATA drive to IDE ribbon cable.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16812206001

There is a small power connector on the ribbon cable side, and that is
what the power cable is connected to.

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/12-206-001-07.jpg

The adapter adds some depth to the hard drive, and you need to verify
the clearance available on the connector side of the drive.

http://www.thg.ru/network/buffalo_terastation/images/terastation_internal.jpg

Before placing your valuable data on the array, I would also verify that
the file system will not corrupt, as files are added to it. I would want
proof that it can hold 3TB of data (depending on what mode you are putting
the drives in), safely. Before putting real data on it.

(In one of the other news groups, a poster built himself a 3TB RAID
array, and it corrupted at the 2.2TB mark, due to a known issue. His
data was not backed up. He was using an Areca RAID card and apparently
did not fully read the manual. The manual had instructions on building
arrays larger than 2.2TB. His data is likely to be recoverable, but he
certainly has a challenge ahead of him.)

Paul

 

[Paolo Iozzino]

Paul,
the adapter seems to be fantastic, thank's a lot.

I have no problem to backup data first. But once I' ve
upgraded disks for me is absolutely important that
RAID 5 works fine
Thanks for your infoes

Paolo