Upgrading the hard drive in the Buffalo Linkstation LS-GL (LS-Pro) NAS
Sunday, 21st March 2010 by Musaul Karim
If you have one of the older Buffalo Linkstation Pro NAS drives (pictured below) and it is running out of space, you can simply upgrade the drive. It really isn’t that difficult if you are used to upgrading bits in your computer. Might be a little daunting if you have never opened your computer though. 
I just upgraded the drive in my LS-500GL, replacing it with a 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green drive, which didn’t take very long at all (except for copying all the data across). What’s more … it is much quieter than the old 500GB Samsung drive that was in the Linkstation, which is a bonus!
What you need to do is to
- Backup the data from the Linkstation,
- Remove the drive,
- Clone the first two primary partitions from your old drive to your new one,
- Create an extended partition, with a swap partition, and a data partition in the new drive,
- Place the new drive in the Linkstation.
… and that’s it!
So, lets proceed …
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